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By
Brad Aaron
8:42 AM EDT on June 16, 2016
- Inspector Stephen D’Ulisse Is NYPD’s New Highway Patrol CO (DNA, News)
- Still a Lot of Unanswered Questions About de Blasio’s Ferries (NYT, 2AS)
- Slate: Cuomo’s LaGuardia Train “One of the Worst Transit Ideas in America”
- AMNY Talked With Local Restaurant and Shop Employees About the 14th Street “PeopleWay”
- DNA Story on DOT’s South Bronx Protected Bike Lane Plan Is Mostly About Parking
- Driver Critically Injures Person Walking at Broadway and W. 61st Street (DNA)
- Motorists Strike and Kill Man on Whitestone Expressway; One Flees Scene (News)
- The Taxi and Limousine Commission Is Now Tracking Uber Crashes (News)
- There’s No Telling Who a TLC-Licensed Driver Might Be Working For (Post)
- DNA Presents the Port Authority’s GWB Bus Terminal Mess, in Timeline Form
- Ideas for Handling Canarsie Tube Traffic Enter Professor Frink Territory (DNA)
- People You Share the Streets With (Post, Post)
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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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