Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:53 AM EST on December 8, 2017
- No Charges for Reckless Driver Who Killed Pedestrian Alan Diaz in Canarsie (Bklyner)
- No Charges for TLC Driver Who Injured 5 in Lower Manhattan (NBC, NY1, Post, News)
- Is Carl Heastie Finally Ready to Deal With Problems at the MTA? (News)
- Robert Rodriguez Calls on Heastie and Flanagan to Get Behind Road Pricing (News)
- Straphangers Question the Value of Remodeled Stations for Chronically Late Trains (NYT)
- Related: Of Course New Subway Countdown Clocks Are Unreliable (AMNY)
- Cuomo’s Shady Tappan Zee Draws Criticism From Bannon Patron Robert Mercer (Post)
- Assembly Member Ed Braunstein Demands More Death on Northern Boulevard (Trib)
- Queens Man Pleads Guilty to Fatal Westchester Hit-and-Run (AP)
- UPS Drivers in NYC Forced to Work Same Hours as Interstate Truckers (News, 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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