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By 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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