Today’s Headlines
Gridlock Expected During UN General Assembly (1010 WINS) Gore’s climate-policy speech at NYU (Grist) Beijing To Ban Cars At 2008 Olympics (Planetizen) Ratner Can Do Better on Traffic, Transit (TSTC) The Driveways That Ate the Parking Spaces (NYT) Stop Reckless Bicyclists (NYT Letters) The Problems of Neighborhood Traffic: The Neighborhood View (TSTC) 43,443 Road Dead. … Continued
10:33 AM EDT on September 19, 2006
- Gridlock Expected During UN General Assembly (1010 WINS)
- Gore’s climate-policy speech at NYU (Grist)
- Beijing To Ban Cars At 2008 Olympics (Planetizen)
- Ratner Can Do Better on Traffic, Transit (TSTC)
- The Driveways That Ate the Parking Spaces (NYT)
- Stop Reckless Bicyclists (NYT Letters)
- The Problems of Neighborhood Traffic: The Neighborhood View (TSTC)
- 43,443 Road Dead. 16,692 Murders. (Empire Zone)
- Dobbs Ferry: 16-Year-Old Girl Killed in Crash (NYT)
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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