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De Blasio: “Community Boards Don’t Get to Decide” on Street Redesigns (WSJ) City Limits Checks In on the City’s Vision Zero Progress Turning MTA Bus Driver Hits and Kills Woman in Sheepshead Bay Crosswalk (News, Post) Subway Delays Soaring as Platforms and Trains Get More Crowded (WNYC) Alon Levy: MTA Should Change How It Determines Subway Frequencies (2nd […]

Why Does Staten Island Have Dangerous Streets? Look No Further Than Its Electeds (Advance) MTA on A/C Line: We’ve Pretty Much Done What We Can (WNYC) Prendergast to MTA Staff: Stop Making Us Look Bad By Badmouthing New Ideas (News) Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Urabia Nelson, 21, in Far Rockaway (News, Post) Four Obstacles to Starting Second Avenue Subway […]

October Set New Records for Subway Ridership (AMNY, News); Kabak: What Now? SI Borough Board Votes Against Affordable Housing; Oddo: Density Not Welcome Here (Politico) Crashes Increase 13 Percent as 24th Precinct Focuses on Ticketing Cyclists (DNA) Cyclist Injured After Psychopath Strings Rope Across Prospect Park Bike Lane (Gothamist) Family of Meg Charlop: NYC Needs Traffic Cams and […]

Unlike Safer Street Designs, Affordable Housing Plan May Overcome CB Objections (Gazette, Politico) Port Authority Votes Today on Whether to Subsidize Construction of 2 World Trade Center (Politico) Daily News: Red Light-Running Wrong-Way Truck Driver Caught by Mayor’s Police Detail Was “Unlucky” Bike Tickets Up, Failure to Yield Tickets Down in 24th Precinct (DNA) Family, School Mourn Ovidio […]

Hit-and-Run Driver Kills 17-Year-Old Jaremello Ovidio on Northern Boulevard (Gothamist, News) TA’s “Justice Denied” Report Wakes Staten Island DA’s Office (@ChristRobbins); More: Post, News The Times Profiles Victoria Nicodemus, Whose Life Isn’t Worth Much to DA Ken Thompson Queens DA Richard Brown Can Doggedly Pursue Justice for Traffic Violence Victims When He Wants To NYPD Chase in the Bronx Ends in […]

Schumer: Federal Transpo Bill Will Help Finance Hudson Transit Tunnel (WNYC, NYT, AMNY, AP) 32BJ Backs de Blasio Housing Plan, Including the Parking Reforms (Politico) Driver Who Killed Victoria Nicodemus Was Caught Driving With Invalid License in March (Post) Twitterverse, DNA Commenters Can’t Focus on the Fact That Nicodemus Was Killed By a Reckless Driver Wrong-Way Driver […]