Half-a-BILLION Wasted in Reckless Driving by City Workers

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By Gersh KuntzmanNov 21, 2019, 12:01 am184 pts
Better get Maaco — or, more accurately, some driver’s ed. The City of New York has spent more than $550 million since 2013 in payouts to the victims of road recklessness caused by employees of just five key agencies crashing their city-owned vehicles, Streetsblog has learned. The grand total over those…

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