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8:46 AM EDT on August 5, 2016

    • Cuomo's WiFi Ferrari Buses Missing Technology That Would Actually Help Riders (AMNY)
    • MTA Testing Countdown Screens on Three Lettered Subway Lines (2ASAMNY, DNANY1)
    • De Blasio: NYPD Getting Officers Out of Cars (WNYC); It's OK for Cops to Live in the Burbs (AMNY)
    • Will Commissioner O'Neill Acknowledge NYPD's Drunk Driving Problem? (News)
    • Bowery Boogie Checks In on Chinatown Manhattan Bridge Safety Improvements
    • Throggs Neck Merchants Association Mouths Off Against Safer East Tremont Avenue (News 12)
    • Locals Propose Traffic Circle for Flatbush/Atlantic/Fourth (Bklyn Paper)
    • Cab Driver Runs Red Light, Intentionally Strikes Woman in Chelsea (DNA)
    • Advance Cheers Transportation Alternatives' Call for Better Staten Island Transit
    • Perfectly Normal: Bout of Bikelash Follows Jersey City Bike-Share Expansion (Journal)
    • How're They Doing? NYPD Wants to Know (PoliticoWNYC)

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