Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:50 AM EDT on June 21, 2017
- Cuomo: Still Playing Games With the MTA (2AS; Politico; NYT; News 1, 2)
- Trains Delayed Again This Morning; More on Yesterday’s Mess: NBC, ABC, Post
- Curbed Is Maintaining a Running List of Subway Meltdowns
- Experts Propose Extended Subway Shutdowns — Intentional Ones — to Expedite Repairs (AMNY)
- Post Has Subway Plan; News Applauds LIRR Discounts, Eric Adams Not Impressed (DNA)
- WSJ Piece Advises Transit Commuters on Keeping Their Sanity; The New Yorker Is Down
- Assembly Passes BQE Bill; No Movement Reported on Speed Cameras (Politico)
- DDC Commissioner Feniosky Peña-Mora Resigns (News)
- Paul Massey’s G Train Solution to the L Train Shutdown Would Mess With the F (News)
- MTA to Extend M1 Route (DNA); Countdown Clocks Coming to East Side (AMNY)
- Unoccupied MTA Bus Rolls Down Bushwick Street, Hits Cars, Sidewalk Fence; 1 Injured (ABC, Post)
- What If NYPD Treated All Crash Victims’ Families Like Human Beings? (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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