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FDNY Ambulance Driver Strikes and Kills Gen Zhan, 81, in East Village Crosswalk (DNA, Post) Parade Organizers Claim No Knowledge of Eastern Parkway Ped Island Removal (Gothamist) Brooklyn Paper Says de Blasio’s Waste Hauling Reforms Are an Invitation to Organized Crime Daily News Thinks Cuomo’s Q70 “LaGuardia Link” Should Be Free Today in Terrible Ideas: Subsidizing Uber … Continued

By Brad Aaron

8:47 AM EDT on August 30, 2016

FDNY Ambulance Driver Strikes and Kills Gen Zhan, 81, in East Village Crosswalk (DNA, Post)
Parade Organizers Claim No Knowledge of Eastern Parkway Ped Island Removal (Gothamist)
Brooklyn Paper Says de Blasio’s Waste Hauling Reforms Are an Invitation to Organized Crime
Daily News Thinks Cuomo’s Q70 “LaGuardia Link” Should Be Free
Today in Terrible Ideas: Subsidizing Uber SUV Rides in New York City (Post)
Citi Bike Starts Valet Service at West and Chambers Street Station (News)
Cops Shamed Into Arresting Black Car Driver for Assault of Cyclist in Williamsburg (Gothamist)
Five Thirty Eight Tries to Nail Down Just How Much New Yorkers Value Transit Access
The Times Examines the Race to Succeed Shelly Silver
Groups of Young People on Bikes Are Freaking Out Staten Island Motorists (Advance)
U.S. DOT Out of Ideas on How to Prevent Traffic Deaths, Asks for Help (NPR)

Brad Aaron

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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