Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:59 AM EDT on September 22, 2016
- “Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes” Drops Suit to Rip Out PPW Bikeway (DNA, Gothamist, Post)
- Brooklyn Paper Responds With Another Bikelash Double Feature (1, 2)
- Voice Has the Play-by-Play on What’s Happening With the Port Authority Bus Terminal
- The W Train Returns in November (NY1)
- After Allegedly Drunk Off-Duty Cop Killed Andrew Esquivel, DMV Kept Him on the Road (News, Post)
- NYPD Misconduct Cost Every New Yorker $27 in FY 16 (Gothamist)
- Woodside Church on Roosevelt Avenue Wants to Add 100 Parking Spots (QNS)
- DOT Refuses Tony Avella’s Request for Changes to Two Bayside Intersections (QNS)
- Off-Duty DSNY Worker Arrested for Drunk Driving Near Union Square (DNA)
- Crashing Your Car Through a Storefront No Big Whoop in the Vision Zero Era (Advance)
- Daily News Op-Ed Writers Think a Subsidized Autonomous Car Experiment Would Help L Train Commuters
- The Ferries Are Coming (AMNY)
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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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