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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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