Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:57 AM EDT on May 18, 2017
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Sergio Gutierrez, 45, in Wakefield, Remains at Large (NY1)
- Citi Bike May Soon Come to the Bronx and Staten Island (DNA, News, Post)
- Daily News Calls on Cuomo to Back Toll Reform to Fund Transit
- No Answers on Deteriorating Subway Service; De Blasio Chimes In (Politico, AMNY, News, NYT)
- More Coverage of Yesterday’s Fair Fares Rally: Gothamist, Voice, News
- Queens Boulevard Vision Zero Improvements Are Saving Lives (NY1)
- Trottenberg Downplays Expectations for City’s Congestion Plan (AMNY)
- Leave It to the Brooklyn Paper to Sensationalize One of NYC’s Most Important Street Safety Projects
- Bay Ridge Council Candidate Takes On “Excessive Ticketing” for Blocking Bike Lanes (Eagle)
- Jumaane Williams Threw a Twitter Tantrum Over “Arbitrary” 25 MPH Speed Limit (1, 2)
- NYPD Officer Backs Into Pedestrian in Bed-Stuy; Victim Hospitalized (News)
- When DOT Stripes Crosswalks Around Illegally Parked Cars, Drivers Are the Victims (Bklyn Paper)
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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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