Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:54 AM EDT on October 11, 2017
- Bill de Blasio’s NYPD Is Out to Punish People for Biking (Metro, DNA)
- New Yorkers Try Shaming Mayor Into Building Protected Bike Lanes (AMNY)
- De Blasio Knocks Road Pricing in Embarrassing Debate (NYT 1, 2; Politico; WNYC; NY1)
- Related: Opponents Attack Mayor for Not Caving to Cuomo’s MTA Extortion Gambit (Post)
- MetroCard Machines Were Still Down Yesterday (Post)
- DiNapoli Report: NYC Bridges Need $20B in Repairs (Post)
- Driver Who Killed Heather Lough: Right of Way Law Violates My Rights (Gothamist)
- NYPD Blames Victim After Driver Runs Over Child in East Flatbush (DNA, NY1, Post)
- 13 Kids Hospitalized When School Bus Drivers Crash in the Bronx (Post)
- No Bike Project Is Too Innocuous to Attract NIMBY Ire (Tribeca Trib)
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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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