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Brad Aaron
8:46 AM EDT on August 2, 2018
- DSNY Worker Critically Injures Bushwick Cyclist, Leaves Scene; NYPD Defends Driver (News, Post)
- Dana Lerner Responds to John Flanagan’s Disgusting Speed Camera Rhetoric (News)
- Subway Ridership Continues Decline (NYT)
- Kabak: Road Pricing Is a Progressive Answer to NYC’s “State-Imposed Transit Crisis” (Curbed)
- Uber, Lyft Try Buying/Propagandizing Their Way Out of Regulation, Fail (Politico, Crain’s, News, NYT)
- Oh No, the Zillionth MTA Rescue Panel Has Yet to Meet (Politico)
- There Have Been Two LIRR Derailments in the Past Two Weeks (News, Post)
- New Bronx and East Side Ferry Routes to Launch This Month (AMNY, Metro)
- Ben Fried Briefs WGN on the Urban App-Hail Glut
- NYC EDC Making a Mess of Its West Thames Street Pedestrian Bridge Project (Crain’s)
- Century Waste, Which Has a History of Flouting Safety Rules, Kills Motorist in Brooklyn (BK Paper, Post)
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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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