Today’s Headlines
- New Yorkers Protest Ferguson Decision in Squares, Streets, Highways (NYT, DNA)
- MTA Officially Releases Reinvention Commission Report Right Before Holiday (WSJ, News, MTR)
- To Truly Reinvent the MTA, Here’s What It Would Have Addressed (Ped Observations, 2nd Ave Sagas)
- City Council Triples Number of Blind-Accessible Ped Signal Installations to 75 Annually (WNYC, Observer)
- 5th Precinct’s Claim of Increase in Cyclist-Involved Crashes Isn’t Supported by NYPD Data (I Quant NY)
- State DOT Secures $20 Million for New Ped Bridge to Riverside Park at West 151st Street (DNA)
- Rockefeller University Expansion Gets $150 Million to Include East River Greenway Upgrades (Crain’s)
- EDC Tries Again to Convert NYPD Parking Garage in Jamaica Into Affordable Housing (DNA)
- De Blasio Scales Back Taxi Medallion Sale and Accompanying Revenue Forecasts (Gotham Gazette)
- Crain’s Says Billions in Bank Settlement Cash Should Be Spent on Transit
- Thruway Authority Estimates Hundreds Per Hour Could Use TZB Bike-Ped Path (LoHud)
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