Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:56 AM EDT on June 7, 2017
- Cuomo’s MTA Won’t Even Tell You Why Your Train Isn’t Moving (News)
- What Cuomo and de Blasio Miss by Not Taking Transit: AMNY, Voice, NYT, NY1, Gothamist
- Switch Failure Stalled LIRR, NJ Transit, and Amtrak Trains Tuesday Evening (Post)
- Danny Dromm Steps Up to Fill the MTA Leadership Vacuum as Team Cuomo Snarks (Politico)
- How Jeffrey Dinowitz Can Atone for Congestion Pricing: Endorse Toll Reform Now (@danrivoli)
- The Port Authority Bus Terminal Was Not Made for These Times (City Journal)
- Principals Union Endorses de Blasio as Ink Dries on Freshly Minted Parking Placards (News)
- Yellow Cabs Get Into the Ride-Sharing Business (NYT)
- Motorist Hits 15-Year-Old Outside Staten Island School (Advance)
- NYPD, Daily News: Bronx Pedestrian Who May Lose Leg “Walked Into” Turning MTA Bus
- Hit-and-Run Driver Who Seriously Injured Columbia Student Also Unlicensed (News)
- Race to Succeed Chris Christie Narrows to Two (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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