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By
Brad Aaron
8:45 AM EDT on September 7, 2016
- Nicole Gelinas: Is Mayor de Blasio Committed to Ending Traffic Deaths, or Not? (Post)
- Port Authority Looking to Sell 1 World Trade Center (Crain’s)
- Does NYC Need Another Transportation Planning Body? Anthony Foxx Thinks So (Voice)
- Construction of the Chrystie Street Bikeway Has Begun (Boogie)
- What de Blasio Could Learn From the Toronto Streetcar: It Needs Dedicated Lanes to Work (NYT)
- MTA to Test New R170 Subway Cars, Arriving This Week at 207th Street Rail Yard (AMNY)
- MTA Board Member, TWU Have Some Ideas on Who Should Build Subway Cars (News)
- Man Arrested for DWI Crash Suspected of Killing Woman at J’Ouvert Festival (Post, News)
- The Perils of Storing Your Luxury Car on a NYC Street (DNA)
- New York Judgeships Are Patronage Appointments (WNYC)
- Chris Christie: TSTC Lists Stalled NJ Transpo Projects; Get Ready for Bridgegate: The Trial (NYT)
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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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