Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
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 (2AS, AMNY, DNA, NY1)
- 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 (Politico, WNYC)
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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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