Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:48 AM EDT on August 4, 2016
- Riders Alliance Calls on de Blasio to Fund Discounted MetroCards (News, AMNY)
- Bay Ridge Motorists’ Insatiable Appetite for Free Parking Sparks Salamanca-Gentile Bill (Eagle)
- More on DOT’s Left Turn Safety Initiative (Voice, WNYC, AMNY, NY1, DNA)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Who Injured Woman on Lower Manhattan Sidewalk Going to Jail (Post)
- Mother of Child Killed by Speeding Driver Outside Harlem School Sues City and Uber (News, Post)
- Cyclist Strikes, Injures Pedestrian on Seventh Avenue in Midtown (DNA)
- High-Speed Collision in Williamsburg Injures Two NYPD Officers and Second Motorist (DNA)
- Steve Matteo Wants to “Balance Safety With Traffic Flow” on Crash-Prone SI Street (Advance)
- Buried Lede: New York State Subsidizes Driver Education for Disabled People (News)
- New York Times Enthralled by Highway Bridge
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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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