Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:58 AM EDT on May 25, 2017
- MTA Capital Plan Amendment Adds Debt, Skimps on Nuts and Bolts (NYT, AMNY, WNYC)
- Cuomo’s MTA Genius Grant Sure Looks Like Another Misdirection Tactic (AMNY)
- More Subway Delays Yesterday (NYT)
- Congress Nixes Federal Study on Stratospheric Transit Construction Costs (Vox)
- Access-A-Ride Users Protest State of MTA Paratransit Services (DNA)
- People Are Skeptical of de Blasio’s Placard Crackdown Pledge (WNYC; Post 1, 2; News; AMNY)
- Politico’s Dana Rubinstein Talks Citi Bike With the Brooklyn Paper
- Nice: Bronx CB 8 Project Monitors Step-Street Conditions (Press)
- News Profiles Victim of Times Square Rampage, a Canadian Tourist Now in a Coma
- NYS DMV’s Tips for Senior Drivers Somehow Failed to Prevent This Senseless Death (News)
- TransAlt Brooklyn Organizer Teka-Lark Lo on What Bicycle Equity Looks Like
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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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