Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:52 AM EDT on May 9, 2018
- MTA Policies Enacted Years Ago Are Making Train Delays Worse Today (NYT)
- Meet the MTA Employees Who Spend Their Days Taking Hits for Andrew Cuomo (WSJ)
- Center for an Urban Future: NYC’s Decrepit Infrastructure Threatens Tourism (Crain’s)
- AMNY Previews Tonight’s L Train Forum
- Final EDC Budget Proposal Doesn’t Fund the BQX (Crain’s)
- Council Members Aim to Make de Blasio’s Lame Attempt at Curb Management Even Worse (Post)
- Mayor Who Won’t Help the Poor Afford Transit Hires Staff to Hand-Hold Rule-Breaking Motorists (Post)
- Justin Brannan Has Had It With Car Dealers Using the Sidewalk as Their Showroom (BK Daily)
- Husband of Woman Killed by Brooklyn Car Wash Worker Has Died (Post)
- Cops Don’t Want People They Stop to Know Who They Are (Post)
- In Sit-Down With Trottenberg, Advance Bemoans Lack of SI Transit While Giving Side-Eye to Bikes
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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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