Today’s Headlines
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Brad Aaron
9:00 AM EDT on August 24, 2017
- MTA Error Caused System-Wide Subway Delays Wednesday (NYT, Gothamist, AMNY, News)
- De Blasio Flogs Millionaire’s Tax and Panders to Motorists in Primary Debate (Politico, WNYC)
- Matthiessen Talks Toll Reform on WNYC; Post Finds a Way to Make Pricing Bad for Transit
- Riverdale Press Interviews Jeffrey Dinowitz About His Transportation Tax Proposal
- The Times Censures Retiring Dem Lawmakers for Bypassing Voters
- A Man Kicked a Car in Queens, So the Driver and a Passenger Killed Him (News)
- Charges Filed: NYPD Throws the Book at Staten Island Cyclist (Advance)
- No Charges, No Tickets for Trash Hauler Who Left Trail of Destruction in Bed-Stuy (DNA)
- Riverdale Press Reader Has the Answer to Times Walk- and Bike-Shaming
- Whatever Happened to the Staten Island Subway? (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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