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By
Brad Aaron
8:57 AM EST on February 8, 2017
- Peggy Diaz, Hit by Driver in Rossville, Dies From Injuries (Advance)
- The MTA Will Give the “Freedom Ticket” a Try This Fall (AMNY)
- Cuomo’s Screwy Transit Priorities, in Two Stories (Voice, New Yorker); Meanwhile … (DNA)
- Who Wants to Run Cuomo’s MTA? (Second Ave Sagas)
- De Blasio Is Getting Involved in the Port Authority Bus Terminal Imbroglio (Politico)
- Bklyn Paper: Mathieu Eugene Wants Cars Out of Prospect Park
- Motorist Kills Woman Walking on Major Deegan; No Charges (News)
- Motorist Strikes and Injures Child Near Cadman Plaza; No Charges (DNA)
- What Carl Heastie Does When He’s Not Obstructing NYC Speed Enforcement (WNYC)
- More Motor Mayhem: News, Post, Post
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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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