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Driver Kills Basid Miah, 23, on Conduit Boulevard in East New York, No Charges Expected (News) Speeding Drunk Driver Causes Five-Car Crash on Bronx Park East, Killing Shiquan Dunn, 31 (News) The Times Is Appalled Cuomo and de Blasio Haven’t United to Fix the Subways Greg David: NYC Business Leaders Don’t Care About the Transit […]

Motorist Who Failed to Yield Kills Myriam Nino, 82, on Northern Blvd. (Post, News) Cranks Win! Manhattan CB 5 Delays Vote on Crosstown Bike Lanes (NY1) De Blasio’s Proposed Budget Ignores Cuomo’s MTA Extortion Stunt (NYT, Politico, WNYC, Post) MTA Backs Off Plan to Take MetroCard Machines Offline, for Now (Voice, AMNY, Post, NY1) Connecticut Can’t Afford Weekend Metro-North […]

Straphangers Demand a Better Bus Component in L Shutdown Plan (NY1, AMNY) Good Luck Recharging Your MetroCard This Weekend (AMNY, Post) Reality Interferes With Cuomo’s Long Island Hockey Train (Voice) Malloy Wants Tolls and a Gas Tax Hike to Pay for CT Roads and Transit (Post) The President Has No Use for Most Pressing Infrastructure Project in […]

Drivers Licenses Mean Nothing in New York (Post 1, 2; Bklyn Paper) Lousy Transit Is a Regressive Tax on NYC’s Hardworking Home Health Aides (NYT) Traffic and Inefficient Labor Practices Make MTA Bus Costs Highest in the U.S. (Curbed) Watchdog Groups Want State to Investigate Inflated Subway Power Failure Data (News) Huzzahs for Corey Johnson’s […]

TSTC: Congestion Pricing Makes Sense for Each District in MTA Region (AMNY, NYT, WSJ, News 1, 2) Andy Byford, a Transit Prez We Can Believe In (WSJ) It’s Up to Aecom Exec Kevin Corbett to Clean Up Christie’s Mess at NJ Transit (NYT) The Hypocrisy of de Blasio’s Windshield Bias (C&S) One Month After NYT Transit Cost […]

Unlicensed Oil Truck Driver Kills Kevin Flores, 13, Biking in Bed Stuy (NY1; News 1, 2; Post) Eric Adams Calls for Tougher Consequences for Companies That Employ Unlicensed Drivers (News) Neftaly Ramirez Lawyer: DA Gonzalez Shielding Action Carting and Trucker Who Killed Him (BK Paper) Victims of Sayfullo Saipov Sue City and State for $600M for Failing […]