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Today’s Headlines

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
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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