Today’s Headlines

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)

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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