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Cycling 

Long Island Transportation Advocates Call for a More Accessible Long Island

December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 Eric Schmid Aaron Watkins-Lopez, Allison Blanchette, Bike, Car-Less Long Island, Club riders, Connor Artz, Daniel Flanzig, Eric Alexander, GoPro, Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, Jon Siebert, Katie Artz, Long Beach, Long Island, Long Island Bus Riders Union, Long Island chapter coordinator of the New York Bicycling Coalition, Long Island Complete Streets, Long Island cycling, Mark Hoffacker, Nassau County, New York, New York Bicycling Coalition, New York Coalition for Transportation Safety, New York roads, New York State, NYBC, Robert Moses, Safe Routes to School, Sharing Roadways, Suffolk County, Sylvia Silberger, three-foot law, three-foot passing law, Vision Long Island

By Eric Schmid Donned with a GoPro on his helmet, Connor Artz rides his bike to school every day. The

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Trains 

Railroad Museums Bring Life Back to Railway History of Long Island

December 5, 2016December 9, 2016 Maggie Cai Adam Burns, Bill Doyle, Donald Fisher, Ed Hertling, Lester Orlick, MTA, NY Transit Museum, Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, Railroad Museum of Long Island, restorations, Robert Delbagno

taBy Maggie Cai The Long Island Rail Road offered the first Holiday Express on Dec. 3, a non-stop holiday themed

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Cars, Driving and Roads 

Long Island Prepares for Snow and Ice This Winter Season

December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 Anisah Abdullah Brookhaven, Dan Losquadro, Diane Williams, driving, Gilbert Anderson, highway department, I495, ice, Joe Cioffi, Long Island, Luke Malinowski, Nassau County, New York State Department of Transportation, NYSDOT, road salt, roads, snow, snow removal, state roads, Suffolk County, Suffolk County Snow Removal NY, town roads, Wilfrid Nixon, winter

By Anisah Abdullah Right after Labor Day, Brookhaven Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro began preparing his town’s equipment for winter. He

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Cars, Driving and Roads 

Federal Law Requires Electric Vehicles To Make More Noise

December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 Raghava Lakshiminarayana

By Raghava Lakshminarayana A blind man faces a great deal of setbacks in his life. Safe mobility is an issue.

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Trains 

Streetcar Proposal Brings Both Hopes and Fears for Residents Along Brooklyn and Queens’ Waterfront

December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 Rawson Jahan albany, astoria, bqx, brooklyn, brooklyn queens connector, bus routes, Capital Plan, citibike, commercial, costa constantinides, dedicated route, fares, friends of the bqx, gentrification, healthy neighborhoods queens action council, hunter college, mayor de blasio, MTA, multifamily housing, new york city council, poll, queens, ravenswood housing projects, red hook housing projects, right of way, state legislature, streetcar, subways, sunset park, tax revenue, transit, transit desert, trolley

By Rawson Jahan A mother of two places her seven-year old daughter on her lap. Laughing, and giggling, the mother-daughter

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Cars, Driving and Roads 

Distracted Driving an ‘Epidemic’ on Long Island

December 5, 2016December 7, 2016 Andrew Goldstein A229, AAA, cell phone, distracted driving, Incubus, Long Island, Nassau, New York, NHTSA, Police, Suffolk, texting

By Andrew Goldstein Skyler Gilbert drove his blue 1999 Honda CR-V down the curves of Route 8 in Brant Lake,

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Cars, Driving and Roads 

Red Light Cameras Divide Suffolk County But is it Temporary

December 5, 2016December 7, 2016 Kaylyn Ahrenstein Bryan Biedenkapp, Fatalities, Jen Hoenigmann, Jimmie Scott, Miller Place School district, Nassau County, New York State, Nicolette Rossi, Patty Ailman, Red Light Cameras, Robert Bennett, Robyn Fellrath-Maresca, Sarah Anker, Scott Twining, Suffolk County, Suffolk County Police Department, Suffolk County Red light safety program, Traffic Crash

By, Kaylyn Ahrenstein Jen Hoenigmann, who has a one-year-old daughter, fears for her child’s safety when ever she’s driving, because

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