Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:30 AM EST on February 1, 2018
- Straphangers Demand a Better Bus Component in L Shutdown Plan (NY1, AMNY)
- Good Luck Recharging Your MetroCard This Weekend (AMNY, Post)
- Reality Interferes With Cuomo’s Long Island Hockey Train (Voice)
- Malloy Wants Tolls and a Gas Tax Hike to Pay for CT Roads and Transit (Post)
- The President Has No Use for Most Pressing Infrastructure Project in the Northeast (AP)
- Eric Adams: It Should Be Manslaughter When an Unlicensed Driver Kills Someone (BK Paper)
- Related: Joe Lentol Blocks “Unfair” Bill to Bolster Penalties, Says “Accidents Happen” (Post)
- Related: Family of Kevin Flores Infuriated by Minor Charges From Eric Gonzalez (Post)
- Livery Drivers Attack TLC Inspectors in the Bronx (Post)
- Apartments to Replace Parking at Boerum Hill Public Housing Complex (BK Paper)
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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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