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By Brad Aaron

8:54 AM EDT on April 12, 2018

MTA and DOT Are Caving to Electeds’ Attack on B82 Select Bus Service (KCP)
Voice: Subway System Not Equipped to Absorb the L Shutdown
Mark Levine Joins Straphangers Calling for Accessible UWS Subway Stations (Rag)
NY1 Went to Yesterday’s Fair Fares Rally at City Hall
MTA Is Testing a Comprehensive Wayfinding App (AMNY)
Sifuentes: Let’s Get Penn Station Out From Under Madison Square Garden (News)
CB 2 Cranks Will Never Agree to a Safer 43rd/Skillman — Where Is Jimmy Van Bramer? (SP)
Idea for Beefed-Up Council Investigative Unit: Who Gets 24/7 City Vehicle Perks, and Why? (Post)
The BBC Wonders What Andy Byford Has Gotten Himself Into
Driving Everywhere Has Finally Broken Tom Wrobleski (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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