Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:58 AM EDT on July 20, 2017
- De Blasio Notes Cuomo’s Screwy Transpo Priorities, Gov’s Flacks Lose It (Politico, @2AS, News)
- Assembly Member Robert Carroll: Enact Road Pricing and Shift BQX Budget to the MTA (Eagle)
- New Yorkers Say State and City Should Boost MTA Funding (WSJ — Paywall)
- Straphangers Vent to WNYC About Their Subway Commutes
- News Endorses Rail Reactivation on Rockaway Beach Branch
- People Are Complaining About East River Ferry Service (DNA)
- July Penn Station NJ Transit Derailment Blamed on “Track Defect” (NYT)
- Rory Lancman Wants NYPD to Publicize Data on Fare-Beating Arrests (Politico)
- Motorist Critically Injures Child in Mariners Harbor; Victim Accused of “Darting” (Advance, DNA)
- Port Authority Truck Driver Critically Injures Senior on Sixth Avenue in Midtown (DNA)
- DOT to Install a Traffic Signal After a Driver Killed a Senior on Broadway in Riverdale (News 12)
- The Daily News Published a Seth Pinsky Advertorial for the Suburbs
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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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