Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EDT on May 5, 2016

Driver Kills Senior Richard Headley in Midtown; No Summonses, No Charges (Gothamist)
Partially-Shut Canarsie Tunnel Would Carry One-Fifth the Riders and Take 3 Years to Fix (NYT, Politico)
City & State Finds a Lot of Holes in Cuomo's Big Ticket Transportation Plans
Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez Makes the Case for Toll Reform to Post Readers
500 Homes to Replace Public Housing Parking Lots in Brooklyn and the Bronx (NYT)
Council Members Took Direction From Uber to Drum Up Opposition to Proposed Regulations (Politico)
Eric Adams: NYPD Must Stop Practice of Reflexively Blaming Crash Victims (Bklyn Paper)
NYPD, News: Brooklyn Pedestrian Critically Injured by Drunk Driver "May Have Been Jaywalking"
More Details on the Crash That Killed Heather Lough From the News and Gothamist
Yet Another NYPD-Involved Crash the Public Will Never Hear Anything Else About (News)
Police Look for Brooklyn Cyclist Who Attacked Motorist, Possibly After Collision (DNA, News, Post)
Nicole Gelinas: JSK Annoyed a Few People and Saved a Lot of Lives (City Journal 1, 2)

Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.

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