Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Chrysler’s chief economist Challenges Climate Change (BBC) Urban growth and cars: Chicken-and-egg issue (IHT) Rep. Weiner Calls for Truck Toll & Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel (Sun) Central Brooklyn’s Staggering Asthma Rates (Bklyn Record) New UN Secretary General Already Parking Illegally (Gothamist) Driver Runs Red Light: Not News. Cyclist Civility: News (NYT) MTA Tests Real-Time Info on … Continued

By Aaron Naparstek

10:56 AM EST on January 15, 2007

Chrysler’s chief economist Challenges Climate Change (BBC)
Urban growth and cars: Chicken-and-egg issue (IHT)
Rep. Weiner Calls for Truck Toll & Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel (Sun)
Central Brooklyn’s Staggering Asthma Rates (Bklyn Record)
New UN Secretary General Already Parking Illegally (Gothamist)
Driver Runs Red Light: Not News. Cyclist Civility: News (NYT)
MTA Tests Real-Time Info on L Train Platforms (Gothamist)
Once at Cotillions, Amanda Burden Now Reshaping the Cityscape (NYT)

Aaron Naparstek

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.

Today's Headlines

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