Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:53 AM EST on December 14, 2016
- Cuomo MIA on Rising Fares and Deteriorating Service But He’ll Grab Credit for 2AS (AMNY, NYT)
- Daily News Puff Piece Punts on Question of Who Will Pay for Andrew “Moses” Cuomo’s Tappan Zee
- AMNY Looks at 2017 City Transit Projects
- Motorist Kills 49-Year-Old Man on Van Wyck Expressway (News)
- There’s No Plan Yet for a Flatbush Avenue Bikeway and Bklyn Paper Is Already Stoking Bikelash
- DNA Tries to Incite Rage Over a Handful of Car-Share Parking Spots in Upper Manhattan
- Dinowitz Assures Riverdale Cranks That Biz Group Plan for Humane Streets Is Going Nowhere (Press)
- No, Staten Island Doesn’t Have “Enough” Parking — and It Never Will (Advance)
- Here’s What It Takes to Get NYPD to Notice Blocked Sidewalks and Obscured License Plates (Post)
- A Reminder — Most Access-A-Ride Trips Don’t Involve Wheelchair Users (NY1)
- How Terrible an Idea Is the Meadowlands Mega-Mall? Trump Wanted to Build It (NYT)
- Sen. John DeFrancisco: Let’s Saddle NYers With a $3B Syracuse Highway Tunnel (Syracuse.com)
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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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