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Brad Aaron
8:56 AM EDT on November 3, 2016
- Let’s Stop Pretending Community Boards Are Qualified to Decide Transportation Policy (Reclaim)
- There’s an Accurate Way to Measure Subway Performance That the MTA Isn’t Using (TransitCenter)
- If DOT and the MTA Get L Line Transitways Right, There Won’t Be a Need for Private Shuttle Buses (Voice)
- Daily News Editorial Board: Still a Lot of Unanswered BQX Questions
- De Blasio Shelves Street Fair Reform Plan (Politico)
- Electeds Let DA Richard Brown Off the Hook for Going Easy on the Driver Who Killed Navraj Raju (TL)
- Motorist Hits Two People, One of Them a Child, Outside School in Bed-Stuy (DNA)
- Conflicting Reports of Person Injured by Driver in Murray Hill Yesterday (Post, DNA)
- Driver Who Dragged Midtown Pedestrian for a Block and Left Scene Arrested (DNA, News, AMNY, NY1)
- TLC and NYPD to Resume Seizing Vehicles From Illegal Dollar Van Operators (Bklyn Paper)
- MTA Ignores Pleas to Turn Streetlights Back On at Upper East Side Intersection (DNA)
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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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