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8:57 AM EDT on May 18, 2016

    • Crain's: Politicians Should Buck Up and Acknowledge the Scourge That Is Free Curbside Parking
    • Fire Spreads to Manhattan Metro-North Tracks, Commuters Diverted to Subways UFN (NYT, AMNY)
    • MTA May Revive F Express Without More Trains (AMNY, 2AS); Will Launch LaGuardia SBS in Fall (News)
    • Trottenberg Doesn't Rule Out Shutting 14th Street to Cars During Canarsie Tunnel Work (News)
    • Even When He's Talking About Transit, Cuomo Can't Stop Talking About Cars (Politico)
    • Tish James and Velmanette Montgomery Not Sure Clinton Avenue Cyclists Are Worth Protecting (KCP)
    • Drivers Collide on UWS, Injuring Bystander (News); Trucker Runs Over Senior in Far Rockaway (News)
    • NYPD and the Daily News Gang Up on Dead Toddler and Her Grieving Mother; Gawker Calls BS
    • Bill Bratton Has No Tolerance for Reckless Behavior by People Who Aren't Driving Cars (Post, News)
    • Take a Ride With Gothamist on Canal Street and the Manhattan Bridge
    • The Randalls Island Connector Is an Unqualified Hit, and the Times Is On It -- Really!

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Brad Aaron
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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