Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:49 AM EDT on September 27, 2016
- The Q70 Is Now LaGuardia Link SBS (NY1)
- MTA Testing Second Avenue Subway Tracks (NY1); December Opening Looks Doubtful (DNA)
- Garbage Truck Traffic Poisoning the Air in Poor Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens Neighborhoods (News)
- New Taxi Tech Will Include Fingerprint Scanners to Verify Who’s Driving (Verge)
- City Council Weighs Tour Bus Cap and Other Reforms (AMNY)
- Schneiderman Charges Off-Duty Cop Who Shot Motorist Delrawn Small With Murder (NYT, DNA)
- DOT Installs 31st Avenue Bike Lanes Over Objections of Queens CB 1 Concern Trolls (DNA)
- DOT Could Still Make Improvements to Metropolitan Avenue Crossing Before Someone Dies (DNA)
- Bronx Times Reporter Patrick Rocchio: Why Didn’t East Tremont Road Diet Prevent DWI “Accident”?
- A Year After Installation, Cyclists Evaluate Disconnected Clove Road Bike Lane (Advance)
- Motorist Strikes, Injures “at Least Two” People, Including a Child, in Borough Park (Post, DNA)
- People You Share the Streets With (Post, Post, Advance)
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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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