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Brad Aaron
8:57 AM EST on January 4, 2018
- Expect Weather to Complicate Your Commute Today, Unless You’re Driving (NY1)
- Cuomo Mostly Gets a Pass for Cagey SOTS: NYT; Politico 1, 2; C&S; News 1, 2; WNYC
- News Lays Into Governor Hard Hat for Barely Mentioning Transit Crisis; Also: NY1, Voice
- Meanwhile, the Times Devoted Ink to the Red Hook Subway Distraction
- De Blasio Still Region’s Lone Sentient Being With No Knowledge of Move NY (Politico)
- Corey Johnson Officially Elected Council Speaker (NYT 1, 2; Politico; News)
- Subway Clocks: Useless When They Don’t Work or Straphangers Can’t See Them (Post)
- Former Cuomo Adviser Howard Glaser Has Thoughts on NYC Traffic (News)
- Motorists Keep Running Over DOT Posts Meant to Slow Turns at Deadly UWS Crossing (Rag)
- How Did the Unlicensed Driver Who Killed Adrian Blanc Get a Rental Car? (News)
- Imagine the TEA Brave Enough to Ticket This NYPD Psychopath (News)
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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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