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By
Brad Aaron
8:32 AM EDT on May 15, 2018
- City Hall to Straphangers Who Can’t Afford the Fare: Tell It to 311 (News, AMNY, Post)
- Signal Snafu Stranded 1/2/3 Riders for More Than an Hour Yesterday Morning (Gothamist)
- Merchants Attack Fulton Area BID Over B25/B26 Bus Lanes (BK Paper)
- Uber Says Staten Island Trips Doubled in the Past Year (Advance)
- Ydanis Wants the TLC to Forgive Certain Cab Driver Fines (AMNY)
- Professional Parking Ticket Fighter Glen Bolofsky Criticizes Stip Fines Program (GG)
- BMW Shuts Its Brooklyn Car-Sharing Service (Crain’s)
- Children Risk Lives Getting to Special Ed. School in Stapleton (Advance)
- Check Out the Downtown Alliance Plan to Pedestrianize Wall and Broad Streets (Curbed)
- Errol Louis: Shelly Silver Also Guilty of Spiking the Commuter Tax (News)
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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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