Today’s Headlines
...Pedestrians got so used to having the thoroughfare all to themselves that there is now a movement afoot to close the street to car traffic one day a week...
10:21 AM EDT on June 14, 2006
…Pedestrians got so used to having the thoroughfare all to themselves that there is now a movement afoot to close the street to car traffic one day a week…
- No More Wiffle Ball on Lincoln Road (Brooklyn Record)
- Faster Buses? (Bruce Schaller in Gotham Gazette)
- A Coney Island Arena? Marty Used to Think So (Atlantic Yards Report)
- Thomas Friedman continues to lay out the case against G.M. (NYT)
- …G.M. responds on its corporate blog (GM FYI)
- Giuliani Says U.S. Lacks Energy Policy (NYT)
- Hospital’s Garden of Sobriety May Sprout Rows of Cars (NYT)
- Suozzi Gets a Standing O From the Conference of Mayors (NYT)
- Four Killed in L.I. Car Crash (Daily News)
- Gas Prices Push Inflation Higher (Daily News)
- Livable Streets Needed on the Moon and Mars (Daily News)
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.
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