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By Brad Aaron

8:54 AM EST on January 18, 2018

Partnership for NYC: Traffic Costs City $20B a Year (Post)
NYT on Crosstown Bike Lanes: People Have Died — But!
Justin Davidson: Pedestrianize Broadway and Get Cars Off Residential Blocks (NY Mag)
Brian Kavanagh Doesn’t Want the BQX to Interfere With BQE Rebuild (Bklyn Paper)
7 Train Riders Will Lose Express Service for Track Repairs (News)
New COs Assigned to Precincts in Manhattan and the Bronx (News, Post)
NYPD Catches Sociopaths Who Hit Officer With Mercedes in Times Square (Post)
Teenager Charged With Attempted Murder for Severely Injuring Cop With Stolen Car (NY1)
Drunk Driver Gets 5 to 15 Years for Killing SI Woman on BQE (News, Advance)
Medallion Owners Got the News and Crain’s to Run Very Similar Anti-Uber Op-Ed
People You Share the Streets With (Advance)

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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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