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• Delancey Street Improvements Likely to Be Small But Fast (DNAinfo)
• Port Authority Audit, Meant to Smear Ex-Director, Finds Big Overruns (Capital NY)
• More Slow Zone Applications: Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Park Slope (Bklyn Ink)
• Driver Hits and Kills 89-Year-Old In Astoria, Tries to Flee Scene (News)
• Bay Ridge Pols and Merchants Try Again for Summer Streets (Bklyn Paper)
• Advocate Makes Case For Bikes Over Trains on Queens Rockaway Branch (News)
• Four Teams Cleared to Bid on Tappan Zee Reconstruction (Record)
• Patch: Bring Bike-Share to Forest Hills?
• New York Gas Prices Could Top $4 a Gallon This Summer (Post)
• The Met Has Big Plans For Its Sidewalks (NYT)

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• House GOP: To Match Gas Tax, New York and Other Cities Need Transit “User Fee” (TransNat, Crain’s)
• Even If Bill Has No Chance, Advocates Say Anti-Transit Extremism Will Come at a Cost (Capital NY)
• Judge Rejects Suit by AAA to Stop Port Authority Toll Increases (Bloomberg)
• John Liu Auditing City Spending From Fund Designated for Bronx Parks (News)
• Manhattan CB 4 Points to Weight Violation to Reduce Megabus Sidewalk Congestion (DNA)
• Environmental Defense Fund: TEAs Issue Average of One Idling Ticket Per Year (CNN)
• DiNapoli Approves Transit Cop Radio Deal With Company Fined by Feds for Bribery (Post)
• Kabak: Cuts in Payroll Tax Should Be Matched by Reductions in Suburban Rail Service
• Bronx ADA Suspected of Having Multiple DWIs Dismissed Was Fired in January (Post)
• East Harlem Pedestrian Struck, Hospitalized; “The Minivan Remained at the Scene” (DNA)

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• Missing Funding Plan for Tappan Zee Delays Construction Process (WSJ)
• DCP May Lift Parking Maximums Near Theater District, Hospitals (NYT)
• …While In Brooklyn,  Little Parking Minimum Relief May Be Coming (NYT)
• Greenwood Heights Residents Propose Their Own 20 MPH Speed Limit (Bklyn Paper)
• Long Island Senators Keep Trying to Chip Away at MTA Payroll Tax (WSJ)
• Advance: State Shouldn’t Underfund MTA, Then Charge Them For Debt
• SUV Driver Hits Car, Curb, Scaffolding (Post)
• Rangel, Nadler, Lhota and Sadik-Khan to Speak Out Against GOP Attack on Transit (AMNY)
• Nan Hayworth: Transit-Free Tappan Zee as Great as House Transpo Bill (LoHud)
• Post Connects Lew Fidler’s Parking Entitlement With Carl Kruger’s Accepting Bribes
• Genting Would Only Fund Super-Express A Train to Convention Center (Kabak)
• Report Suggests MTA Cut Service For Lower-Ridership Fridays (News)

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• Juan Gonzalez: City-Backed Yankee Stadium Parking Garages Headed for Default on Bonds
• Pension Warnings Lead Bloomberg Budget Coverage (NYT, DNA, Post, NY1)
• Jim Dwyer Validates Kvetching About Bus Lane From Anonymous Albany Official (NYT)
• BTW, Where’s the Indignant Commentary on the Taxpayer Fine for Crap Like This? (Post, DNA)
• Cyclist Seriously Injured After Colliding With Lane Divider Near Holland Tunnel (DNA)
• Four Dead, One Critical in High-Speed One-Car Crash on the Major Deegan (Post)
• Hit-and-Run Driver Surrenders to Police After Critically Injuring Brooklyn Pedestrian (News)
• Cell-Phone and Wi-Fi Service Expanding to More Subway Stations (WSJ)
• Hard to Believe It Was Only Recently That the MTA Stopped Hoarding Data (News, TransNat)
• City Considers Width Restrictions for Upper West Side Chain Stores (NYT)
• Times Story on Straphangers’ Subway Rat Survey Just Aches for Possum Cameo
• How Many Speeding Cop Cars Does It Take to Escort an Ambulance? Gothamist Counts 42

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• Bloomberg Budget Proposal: More Cuts to City Services, No New Taxes (DNA, WNYC, NY1, News)
• Chris Ward: New York Neglects Declining Infrastructure at Its Own Peril (Capital NY)
• TWU Talks Resume (TransNat); Union Wins Time Off for Subway Crews Who Witness Fatalities (Post)
• League of American Bicyclists President to Discuss House Transportation Bill With Brian Lehrer
• City Council Aspirants Announce Intentions for Jessica Lappin’s Seat (DNA)
• Assembly Member Philip Goldfeder Lobbies for Revival of LIRR Rockaway Beach Line (NY1)
• Ben Kabak: Bond Fees an Often Overlooked State Scheme That Stiffs Transit Users
• Man Killed on Staten Island Expressway Apparently Left There by NYPD (Advance)
• Alex Marshall: City’s Pockmarked Streets Hazardous to Cyclists (RPA)
• New York Media Again Schooled on Cycling Coverage, This Time in the UK (Dani Simons)
• Meanwhile, No Motorist Sob Story Is Too Trivial for the New York Post

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• CB 4 Chair: Put Bike-Share Stations on Street, Not Sidewalk (Transpo Nation)
• Advocates: Reactivate Rockaway Branch, Create Rego Park Transit Hub (News)
• Try to Expand Rail Freight, Get Investigated by the Assembly (NYT)
• Crash Videos Don’t Show Lefevre Trying to Pass Truck on Right (NYT)
• Drunk Driver Gets Five Years Probation for Killing Six-Year-Old in Queens (Post)
• Staten Island Advance Isn’t Content With New Toll Discounts, Wants More (1, 2)
• Buffalo and Niagara Falls Riders Rally for Albany to Support Transit (WIVB)
• Someone Is Either Stealing Ghost Bikes, Or Pretending To (Gothamist)
• Chris Christie Turns Port Authority Into Patronage Machine (Transpo Nation)
• NYPD to Expand Presence on Navy Street Overpass (Bklyn Paper)
• LeBron to Reporters: “You Guys Drove Here? You Guys Are Crazy” (WSJ)

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• Nicole Gelinas: Don’t Fall for Cuomo’s Road-Financing Gimmicks (Post)
• Putting a Price on Congestion “Saves Everyone Money in the End” (NYT Economix)
• Survey: NYers Can Tell Service Has Gotten Worse Since Albany-Induced Transit Cuts (Post, AMNY)
• Are Transit Advocates Getting the Right Message Across? (2nd Ave Sagas)
• Richard Jackson: “Health Happens in Neighborhoods, Not Doctors’ Offices” (NYT Well)
• It’s Time to Start a Body Count for NYC’s Big Box Parking Garage Decks (News, NYT)
• James Sanders Begs for More Commuter Rail Subsidies for the Rockaways (News)
• MTA Releases Handy Map of Late Night Subway Service (2nd Ave Sagas, NY1)
• Sean Sweeney Poses as Pedestrian Advocate (Villager)
• Bike-share Station Planning — Get Psyched! (TreeHugger)

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• Journal News: Tappan Zee Plan “Shortsighted,” Planning “Superficial”
• Staten Island Woman Hit While Crossing Street, Unlikely to Survive (Advance 1, 2)
• In Cross-Bronx Crash, Sister Saved Boxer’s Life Before Dying Herself (News)
• As Negotiations Continue, MTA Sets Disciplinary Quotas, TWU Threatens Slowdown (Post, News)
• “Increase Pedestrian Flow” in SoHo? Sean Sweeney Flips Out (NYT)
• Lew Fidler Still Parking on Borough Hall Sidewalk (Post)
• Bike-Share Gets a Positive Promo From International Business Times
• Bridge Authority Toll Hike Takes Effect Today (Post)
• Gelinas: Tolls Not Enough to Pay for Tappan Zee, So What Will? (Torch)
• Elevator Crash Gets Citywide Reaction, Traffic Crashes Get Police Obstruction (Drum Major)

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• “Most Gerrymandered Lines” in Memory Shortchange Dems, NYC (NY World)
• Pedestrian Struck Once, Killed By Second Driver While Waiting For Ambulance (ABC 7)
• Hoboken, Jersey City Hope to Have Joint Bike-Share Running This Summer (Jersey Journal)
• Transit Use on the Rise in Even the Most Distant Parts of Brooklyn (Bk Bureau)
• Lhota Wants to Expand Williamsburg’s Booming L Stations (News)
• Queens Electeds Rally For Free Driving on Cross Bay Bridge (Times-Ledger)
• Chris Christie Proposes Statewide Smart Growth Plan (WSJ)
• Legislators Chafe at Cuomo’s Tight-Lipped Transportation Plans (Times Union)
• Riverkeeper: Tappan Zee Plan Hasty Rush Toward Unsustainable Bridge
• Atlantic Yards Plan to Reduce Driving Delayed By Months (AYR 1, 2)
• “Hasids vs. Hipsters” Spreads From Williamsburg to Crown Heights (News)
• Why Did LIRR Cancel Two Trains to Catch One iPhone Thief? (Post)

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• MTA May Refinance Debt Billions to Lower Borrowing Rate (Bloomberg)
• DNA: James Vacca to Force DOT to Fix Nightmarish Ped Plazas; Also: Sane Coverage From NY1, WNYC
• Funeral Services Held for Dashane Santana (DNA, Fox); Support Grows for Safer Delancey (Lo-Down)
• David Greenfield Prods NYPD to Ticket Borough Park Drivers Who Pass Stopped School Buses (VIN)
• Education Panelist Wants More “Hazard Variances” to Bus Kids on Dangerous Streets (News)
• Inwood Drivers Incensed After DOT Carries Out Precinct Request to Daylight Blind Corner (DNA)
• Desperate for Respite From Speeders, Rego Park Group Undertakes Onerous Slow Zone App (QChron)
• Pedestrian Killed Trying to Cross Staten Island Expressway; No Criminality Suspected (Post)
• James Gennaro: Muni-Meter Grace Period Gives Anxious Motorists One Less Stressor (QGazette)
• First Central Park East-West Shared Transverse Is Now Open (TransNat)
• Upper East Side NIMBYs: Our Block Is Too Special for Subway Station Entrance (NY1)

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