Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:47 AM EST on November 15, 2016
- Time Is Running Out to Get the Second Avenue Subway Operational in December (NYT)
- RPA and Riders Alliance Propose New BRT Service to Help Handle L Train Load (Politico)
- NJ Transit Train That Crashed in Hoboken Had History of Brake Problems (PIX)
- Thanks to Trump It’s More Dangerous to Walk in NYC Than It Was a Week Ago (DNA)
- Gelinas to de Blasio: Streets Around Trump Tower Don’t Have to Be a Dead Zone (Post); More: News
- MTA Says All Lettered-Line Subway Stations Will Have Countdown Clocks by 2018 (AMNY)
- MTA Board Members Talk Subway Platform Doors (AMNY, News); Alex Marshall: It’s Time (News)
- Motorist Hits 11-Year-Old Boy in Flushing, Causing Life-Threatening Injuries (DNA, News, Post)
- Box Truck Driver Hits 2 on Amsterdam Avenue and Flees Scene; 1 Victim Critical (DNA)
- A Man Shot Another Man Over a Parking Spot in the Bronx (Post)
- Bronx DA Darcel Clark Nabs Livery Driver Who Injured a Child and Fled to Germany (DNA, News)
- Chait: Schumer, Pelosi Should Oppose Trump Infrastructure Plan for the Good of the Country (NY Mag)
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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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