Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:50 AM EST on March 9, 2017
- Will the BQX Be Faster Than the Bus? (AMNY)
- De Blasio Talks Up Ferry Jobs, Launch Date TBD (AMNY, DNA); Advance Not Impressed
- NYPD Arrests Women’s Rights Demonstrators for Disrupting Traffic (DNA, Gothamist, Post)
- DOT Plans Median Island, LPI at Intersection Outside Forest Hills School (DNA)
- Cyclist Severely Injures 62-Year-Old Woman on 14th Street (DNA)
- 122nd Precinct Breaks Out the Magic Tape to Save Seniors From Reckless Drivers (Advance)
- Driver Flips Car on Neighborhood Street; NYPD Declines to Investigate (Rag)
- Post Weeps for Impaired Motorist Who Left Greenway Cyclist Olga Cook to Die
- Upstate Taxi Group Wants Schneiderman to Probe Uber Law-Evasion Tech (News)
- It’s Going to Take Road Pricing, Not Robocars, to Fix City Traffic (NYT)
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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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