Today’s Headlines

• Shelly Silver Will Remove Cuomo’s $40 Million Transit Raid From Assembly Budget (News)
• MTA Ridership Grew 3.6 Percent in 2013 (NYT)
• De Blasio Nominates TLC Ex-Counsel Meera Joshi as Taxi Commissioner (News, NYT, CapNY)
• Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Kumar Ragunath, 64, Crossing Northern Blvd (TL, NY1, NYT, DNA, WPIX)
• Unidentified Man Killed by Driver Backing Out of Maspeth Driveway (TL)
• Two Cabs Crash in LES, Injuring Passenger; One Driver Was Going 60 MPH (News, Lo-Down)
• Golden and Malliotakis Launch Petition to Expand VNB Toll Giveaway (WNYC, WPIX)
• Cuomo Funds New Bus Transit Service… to the Ski Slopes (News, Post, TU)
• Bronx CB 2 and 41st Precinct Launch Joint Traffic Safety Task Force (Bronx Times)
• Eric Adams in Caribbean Life: “Traffic Safety Reforms Must Be Fast-Tracked… We Need to Slow Down”
• Tonight: Join TA for Workshop on How to Improve Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn (News)
• Have You Spotted the 10 Citi Bikes Decorated to Celebrate Armory Arts Week? (Velojoy)

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