Today’s Headlines
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8:53 AM EDT on September 4, 2015
- Driver Critically Injures 34-Year-Old Cyclist in North Corona (WCBS)
- Dromm, Lander Join Advocates Urging City Hall to Tweak, Not Scrap, Plazas (Gotham Gazette)
- DOT Seeks 400 Drivers for High-Tech Study of Motorist Behavior (News)
- Port Authority Has Spent $1.75 Million on Lawyers in Probe of NJ Road Funding (Record)
- Essex Market Street Seat Won’t Be Installed This Year (Bowery Boogie)
- Parking Attendant Smashes Forest Hills Wall, Sending Bricks Raining Down on Pedestrians (DNA, WCBS)
- Matteo Wants DOT to Install More Left Turn Signals as Street Safety Solution (Advance)
- NY1 Visits New 3.3-Mile Greenway Along Eastern Edge of Fresh Kills Park
- 13 Hours, One Swipe: WNYC Sends Reporter on Longest Possible Non-Repeating Subway Ride
- Reader Letter to Times Newsweekly Dials Rhetoric Against Queens Blvd Bike Lanes Up to 11
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In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation.
From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.
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