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• Andrea Bernstein Knows Bike-Share Isn’t for Long Trips, But Conjures One Up Anyway
• More on the Straphangers’ State of the Signals Report: Kabak, DNA, Capital
• MTA and TWU Join NYPD and District Attorneys for Summit on Transit Worker Assaults (NY1)
• Matt Chaban’s Paean to the Schwartz Plan Tarnished by Exhumation of Richard Brodsky
• East Village Parking Spot Puncher Convicted of Misdemeanor (News)
• Teenage Boy Hospitalized After He’s Struck by Driver in East New York (DNA)
• Woman Says She Was Threatened by Access-A-Ride Driver Over Cell Phone Use (News)
• Staten Islanders Forced to Weigh Love of Nature vs. Love of Asphalt (Advance)
• Parking Complaints Shut Down Film Shoots in DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights (Bklyn Paper)
• Amigo Watch: Judge Directs Espada Jury to Keep Deliberating (News); Few Tears for the Fallen (NYT)
• Forgotten What It Was Like to First Ride a Bike? Let These Kids Remind You (News)

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• Search for Bike-Share Sponsor Went Down to the Wire, Slowing System Rollout (Transpo Nation)
• East Side Access Could Be Delayed Again, to 2019 (WSJ, Transpo Nation)
• To Keep Washington Heights Seniors Safe, DOT Proposes Traffic Calming and Ped Islands (DNAinfo)
• East Side CB Approves of Bike-Share, Including 118 Docks at Grand Central (DNAinfo)
• Bike-Share Prices Worth It, Within Normal Range, But Reflect Lack of Public Subsidy (Guardian)
• Moynihan Station Construction to Begin This Year (WSJ)
• East Coast Greenway to Finally Extend Through Industrial Jersey (WSJ)
• Driver Strikes Flatbush Man Crossing Ditmas Avenue With Breakfast (DNAinfo)
• Heroic Liveblog Brings You Every Federal Transpo Bill Conference Talking Point (Streetsblog DC)
• News: Conference Committee, Schumer, Grimm, Have Chance to Restore Transit Tax Credit
• It’ll Take Hillary Clinton to Keep This Bike Lane Clear (Observer)

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• Citi Bike All Over the News (NYT, News, Post, WSJ, NY1, DNA, NBC, CBS, Politicker, Bloomberg, TN)
• Bike-Share Misconception #1: Expecting It to Be Used for All-Day Jaunts (Gothamist, Post, Felix Salmon)
• Bike-Share Misconception #2: Expecting Pedestrians to Get Hurt By People Riding Shared Bikes (News)
• Queens Feeling Slighted About Getting Shut Out of Citi Bike, Even Though LIC Will Have It (QChron)
• NYC’s Sheridan Teardown Study Delayed By a Year (News)
• Help Make the Teardown Happen: The South Bronx River Watershed Alliance Is Hiring (MTR)
• DOT Proposes Sharrows for Ashland Place in Fort Greene (Brownstoner)
• Reviving the Rockaway Branch as a North-South Subway Connection for Queens (2nd Ave Sagas)
• Why Are the Dollar Vans on Flatbush So Busted? (Cap’n Transit)
• New Bruce Appleyard Research: Driving Kids Everywhere Kills Their Sense of Place (Atlantic Cities)

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• Homicide Charges Filed Against Driver in Fatal Head-On 90 MPH Collision (News)
• Private Garbage Truck Driver Kills Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian; “No Criminality Suspected” (Gothamist)
• Tappan Zee Transparency: Cuomo Admin Won’t Say a Word About Likely Thruway Toll Hikes (LoHud)
• Felon Convicted of Defrauding MTA Hired to Run Payroll For East Side Access Contractor (News)
• Cool, If Surprising, to See Bike-Share’s Alison Cohen on List of NYC’s Most Powerful (NYT)
• Newsday: Walkable, Transit-Oriented Downtown Is the Future for Farmington
• As Big Box Retail Struggles, Urban Locations Able to Subdivide and Thrive (WSJ)
• Five Borough Bike Tour Shows Demand For Cycling, But Safety Remains Obstacle (AMNY)
• City’s First Bike Expo Proves Cycling Is Big Business (DNAinfo)
• City’s Highways, Old And Narrow, Safer Than National Average (Times-Union)
• Annual Blessing of the Bikes Calls Attention to Year’s Slain Cyclists (NYT)
• Stringer Pushes MTA to Make Senior MetroCard Replacement Easier (News)

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• On-Duty Secret Service Agent, Trying to Beat the Light, Kills Bed-Stuy Pedestrian Maria Tripp (News)
• Sidewalk Extensions, Ped Plazas Coming to Financial District’s Whitehall and State Streets (DNAinfo)
• First Phase of Queens Greenway, From LIC to Astoria, to Open This Fall (News)
• Cuomo Won’t Tell New Yorkers How He Hopes to Pay for Tappan Zee (Transpo Nation)
• Transpo Nation Previews Lower Manhattan’s 43 Bike-Share Stations
• DOT Responds to Death of 5-Year-Old Timothy Keith With Hicks Street Speed Sign (DNAinfo)
• Sam Schwartz Pitches His Congestion Pricing Plan in the Daily News
• LIRR to Study Reopening Station in Booming Elmhurst (WSJ)
• Phil Goldfeder Keeps Up His Push for Restored Rockaway Branch LIRR Service (DNAinfo)
• City Plans New Ferry Service Between Upper East Side and Randall’s Island (DNAinfo)

• ESDC Cuts Barclays Parking in Half; Arena Lot Won’t Have Hydraulic Racks (AYR, Post)
• State DOT Acts to Save Bronx River Parkway Drivers From Themselves (NYT, Diaz)
• Daily News Continues Its Relentless Quest for Answers on This Particular Fatal Crash
• Witnesses: West Village Pedestrian Carrying Her Dog Seriously Injured by Speeding Cabbie (News)
• Woman on Mobility Scooter Struck and Killed on Eastern Parkway (DNA, News, NY1)
• Retrial Begins for Man Accused of Putting Woman in Coma Over Village Parking Spot (Post)
• No Funding, No Transit, No Problem: Rockland Group Says Tappan Zee Is a Done Deal (Patch)
• Liu Says New Cabs Must Be Wheelchair-Accessible, Pledges to Reject Contract (Capital)
• Allen-Pike Street Plaza Set for July Completion (Gothamist)
• Improvements to Flatbush Avenue Await Approval From Public Design Commission (B’stoner)
• Planned Development for Willets Point to Be Delayed by Zoning Review (NYT)
• Expanding Brooklyn Bike Patrol Offers a Safe Walk Home (News)

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• Construction on Permanent Times Square Redesign Begins This Spring (DNAinfo)
• Cuomo Grants Two-Year Reprieve on State Charge For MTA Borrowing (Advance)
• Wrong-Way, Hit-And-Run Driver Pleads Guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide (QChron)
• Op-Ed: Tappan Zee Transit Key to Reinventing Hudson Valley, Halting Suburban Decline (Newsday)
• Coming Soon: Real Time Subway Data (2nd Ave Sagas)
• Queens Highway Crash Injures Eight, Including Three Children (DNAinfo)
• Driver Flees Scene After Striking Prospect Heights Two-Year-Old (Patch)
• Black Car Drivers Vote to Unionize in First Round of Major Campaign (Crain’s)
• Ed Towns and Wife Gwen Will Miss Campaign-Funded Personal Cars (News)
• Updated Scorecard Provides Standard For Measuring BRT Quality (Transpo Nation)
• Apparently, Cyclists Are All That Stand Between Piermont, NY and Perfection (NYT)
• Here’s One Way to Get Local Support For Metered Parking (DNAinfo)

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• Media Paying More Attention to Bronx Highway Tragedy Than Other Traffic Deaths (NYT, NY1, WSJ)
• Imagine If Every Fatal Crash Prompted This Level of Engineering Analysis From the Daily News
• AAA Blames Curb of Closed-Off Pedestrian Walkway on the Bronx River Parkway (Post)
• Cap’n Transit: Put the Highway on a Diet, Save Lives
• Judge Rejects Suit Seeking to Deny Curbside Access Near Port Authority to Megabus (DNA)
• 2008 LES Rezoning Impeding Development Near Delancey Street Subway (Crain’s)
• Staten Island Cops Hand Out More Tickets for Tinted Windows Than for Speeding (Advance)
• 10,000 Cyclists Turn Out in London to Protest Lack of Safe Streets (Times of London)
• Police Bias Against Cyclists: A National Perspective (Bicycling)
• Complete Streets Laws All the Rage in Jersey (MTR)

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• Family of Seven, From Grandparents to Three-Year-Old, Dead in Bronx River Parkway Crash (NYT)
• …Surviving Family Mourns, Day After One Victim’s First Communion (News)
• Taxi Driver Kills Pedestrian Who Fell Down Crossing Sixth Avenue in Soho (Post, DNAinfo)
• Restoring Two-Way Traffic to Liberty Avenue Boosts Safety and Business (Queens Courier)
• Cars Leave No Room For Commerce On Curbside and Sidewalk (Crain’s)
• Tentative Details Emerging About Bike-Share Pricing, Time Limits (Bklyn Spoke)
• Police Suspect No Criminality In Police Car Crash, Three Injured (DNAinfo)
• Exact Shade of Green Selected for Borough Taxis (NYT)
• Op-Ed: Construction Fraud Is No Isolated Occurrence (News)

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• Feds Won’t Rule Out Transit-Free Tappan Zee Loan; Schumer, Gillibrand: Fingers Crossed (LoHud)
• Ward: To Keep New York Working, Top Priority of Next Mayor “Has to Be the MTA” (Capital)
• Gridlock Sam and Brian Lehrer Wonder If Cuomo Understands Toll Proposal (Transpo Nation)
• Ratner Again Delays Review of Atlantic Yards Transportation Plan (AYR)
• Family and Friends Mourn Mike Rogalle, Killed By Driver Held Blameless By NYPD (DNA)
• Group Behind 14th Street Ped Plaza Seeking Proposals for Open-Air Food Market (DNA)
• MTA Counting on Vendor to Maintain Massive East Side Access Escalator System (WSJ)
• Markowitz Chief of Staff Scissura Chooses Chamber of Commerce Over Race for Beep (Bklyn Paper)
• Staten Island DA Dan Donovan Launches New Probe Into Working Families Party (Crain’s)
• Adios, Amigo: Kickback King Carl Kruger Sentenced to Seven Years (NYT)
• Laugh Track the Only Thing Missing From This Beverly Hills NUMBY Reel (Streetsblog LA)
• New York City Bike Thieves Have Zero Fear (Post)

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