Today’s Headlines
Rally Today, 10 am, Against the NYPD’s Proposed Bicycling Restrictions Bigger Push for Charging Drivers Who Use the Busiest Streets (NYT) Related: Event: Road Pricing Worked in London, Can it Work in New York? Bloomberg Admin Developing Land Use Plan for Future Populations (NYT) Related: Streetsblog Reveals The Garvin Report: A New Urban Vision for NYC … Continued
7:00 AM EST on November 27, 2006
- Rally Today, 10 am, Against the NYPD’s Proposed Bicycling Restrictions
- Bigger Push for Charging Drivers Who Use the Busiest Streets (NYT)
- Related: Event: Road Pricing Worked in London, Can it Work in New York?
- Bloomberg Admin Developing Land Use Plan for Future Populations (NYT)
- Related: Streetsblog Reveals The Garvin Report: A New Urban Vision for NYC
- Journeys End: Images of NYC’s Ghost Bikes (NYT)
- Crash on Broadway: Cement Pedestrian Refuge Saves Lives (Spectator)
- Deal Sweeteners (New Yorker)
- Wealthy Finland Driver Hit With 170,000 Euro Speeding Ticket (BBC)
- Gargano’s Bad Week Finally Ends (NLG)
-
Woman Hurt in Hit-Run (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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