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8:59 AM EST on February 8, 2016

    • Orcutt: Market for Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Route Seems Far Too Small to Justify $2.5 Billion (News)
    • More Skeptical Takes on Streetcar: David Bragdon (Bklyn Paper), Vanterpool and Kabak (Guardian)
    • Give These Southern Brooklyn Pols Some Bus Lanes! (Bklyn Paper)
    • Sam Schwartz Makes His Case for BQX (News)
    • See All the Zigs and Zags the Streetcar Would Make in This Crain's Map
    • School Bus Driver Kills Woman, 54, on Crown Heights Sidewalk (Gothamist)
    • Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Charity Hicks Is the Son of a Cop (PINAC)
    • Uber Drivers Are Working to the Point of Exhaustion (Post)
    • Breakaway Courier's Rob Kotch Goes Undercover to Take Down Uber's Bike Messenger Biz (Crain's)
    • The Decline of the Port Authority (City Journal)

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