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Today’s Headlines

I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car (NYT) State Legislature Back in Albany Today to Vote on Pricing Deal (Newsday) Q-Poll: Congestion Pricing Bad but a Fare Hike is Worse (Daily Politics) Exhaust Fumes Linked to a Rise in Heart Disease (Guardian) Fare Hike Looming: MTA … Continued
  • I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car (NYT)
  • State Legislature Back in Albany Today to Vote on Pricing Deal (Newsday)
  • Q-Poll: Congestion Pricing Bad but a Fare Hike is Worse (Daily Politics)
  • Exhaust Fumes Linked to a Rise in Heart Disease (Guardian)
  • Fare Hike Looming: MTA Should be Pushing Congestion Pricing (NYT)
  • MTA Looking to Sell Subway Naming Rights (Sun)
  • How Does MTA Justify Atlantic Yards Railyards Give-Away? (NLG)
  • Activists Want to Bring Trolleys Back to Brooklyn (News)
  • New Bike Helmet Law Takes Effect Today in NYC (Metro)
  • Results Are In: Readers Favor Color Green for Bike Lanes (McBrooklyn)
  • Exxon-Mobil Posts Fourth Largest Quarterly Profit Ever (NYT)
  • Is it Unmanly to Carpool? (Grist)
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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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