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8:38 AM EDT on August 14, 2018

    • CBC Sounds Alarm Over Unsustainable MTA Finances (Crain's)
    • 130K Drivers Have Gotten by With Speeding Past Schools Since July 25 (NY1, News, Post)
    • Queens Motorist Runs Over 11-Year-Old on Bike and Keeps Driving (News, Post)
    • If Only de Blasio Was in a Position to Compel NYPD to Enforce Traffic Laws ... (News)
    • New Yorker to NYC: Stop Blaming Victims for Driver Recklessness (News)
    • London: Driver Deliberately Runs Over People Walking and Biking Near Parliament (NYT)
    • City Hall Says New Times Square Bollards Will Be Installed by Year's End (Post)
    • Freeze on Uber Licenses Sparks Wave of Registrations (NYT, NY1)
    • Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Heriberta Ramirez Still on the Loose (Advance)
    • People You Share the Streets With (Gothamist)

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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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