Kat Aaron

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Monday, April 21, 2014

New documents emerge in GM recalls, but car buyers don't seem fazed. Hope fades for the hundreds still missing in the Korean ferry disaster. NYPD is writing more tickets for dangerous...
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NYPD Writing More Tickets for Dangerous Driving

Friday, April 18, 2014

A new WNYC analysis shows enforcement of the most dangerous moving violations is up citywide. Targeting dangerous driver behavior is central to Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic deaths.

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US Senator Sees "Staggering" Number of Safety Violations at Metro-North

Friday, April 18, 2014

The railroad racked up 139 safety violations over the past decade, and incurred almost half a million dollars in fines, according to data released today.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Friday, April 18, 2014

New York's subway and bus workers get a new contract. The Grand Concourse gets slower speeds. Questions grow about the captain's actions in the South Korean ferry disaster. And banks ...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Thursday, April 17, 2014

New York City should do "whatever it takes" to keep Citi Bike going. The freight rail industry will miss a major safety deadline. There may still be survivors in the capsized Korean f...
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New York Has Sixth-Lowest Rate of Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Cities with lower fatality rates were Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, Colorado Springs and San Francisco.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Hundreds are feared dead after a ferry sank off the coast of Korea. Pushed out of NJ Transit, a train executive heads to Metro-North. The nation's highway fund may go bankrupt late th...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

The Pulaski shutdown was not Carmageddon. The police car that hit a pedestrian Sunday may not have had sirens on. Seattle Uber drivers consider unionizing. America could get levitatin...
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Fund for Disabled Taxi Drivers Hits Legal Setback

Monday, April 14, 2014

A fund for sick and injured taxi workers has an uncertain future after a judge’s ruling Friday. 

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Company Behind Citi Bike Infrastructure Gets New Owner

Monday, April 14, 2014

The company behind much of Citi Bike’s hardware and software has a new owner.

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TN MOVING STORIES: Transpo News Links from Around the Web

Monday, April 14, 2014

A pedestrian was struck by a police car uptown Sunday. The Pulaski Skyway is closed to Manhattan. Bankrupt bikeshare company Bixi finds a new owner. And the Netherlands is testing glow-in-the-dark road markings. 

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Freshkills Park To Open for Sneak Peeks

Friday, April 11, 2014

Once the world's largest landfill, it's now a 2,200-acre park.

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City's New Taxi Chief Gets the Official Nod

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Meera Joshi says she'll bring "inclusion, consensus and common sense" to the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission. 

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Repairs on the "D-" Pulaski Skyway Start Saturday

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

New Jersey officials aren't sugar coating it: things are going to be "very difficult" for the 40,000 drivers who use it every day.

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De Blasio's Pick for Taxi Chair Makes Her Case to City Council

Thursday, April 03, 2014

The woman nominated by Mayor de Blasio to run the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission says if she's confirmed, one of her top priorities will be to set a "new bar for driver and vehi...
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NYC Could Get 120 More Speed Cameras

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Speed cameras for New York City streets didn’t make it into the final state budget bill, but twin bills in the Assembly and Senate would bring them to the five boroughs, along with Nassau and Suffolk counties.

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We're Citibiking to Work, Not Play

Monday, March 31, 2014

New Yorkers are using Citi Bike as a key part of their commute, not just for touristy joyrides, according to new data released by the bikeshare system and analyzed by NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation.

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New Details on Black Boxes for Taxis

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

One piece of Mayor de Blasio's 63-part Vision Zero plan was to install "black boxes" in the city's taxis. Now, the Taxi and Limousine Commission is fleshing out that idea.

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Tracking NYC's Traffic Deaths

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

It's the year of "Vision Zero" but in 2014 there have already been 46 traffic deaths, from bikers to pedestrians to drivers and passengers. WNYC reporters Jim O'Grady and Kat Aaron talk about the new Transportation Nation database, tracking these deaths, and Jim's reporting on one victim -- four-year-old Allison Liao, struck by a car in Flushing, Queens.

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Mean Streets: Who Is Dying in Traffic Crashes and Why

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

More than half of the 27 pedestrians killed by cars in New York City this year died on major roadways. That’s just one of the findings of a new WNYC analysis of traffic deaths.
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