Today’s Headlines

8:57 AM EST on November 5, 2007

New Yorkers Offer Their Own Traffic Reduction Plans (NYT)
Lipsky Spins: Impossible to Evaluate Mayor's Traffic Plan Vs. Fidler's (Mom&Pop)
For Lew: Don't Plan on Driving a Hydrogen Car Any Time Soon (New Yorker)
Paying an $8 Congestion Charge Is the Least This Little Sociopath Can Do (NYT)
State Legislators to Float $660 Million Transit Bill (Sun)
Proposed MTA Hike Follows Electoral Pattern; Also: MTA "Not Deaf" (NYT, News)
Praise for Sander and Sadik-Khan (AMNY)
More on the City's Hudson Yards Parking Bonanza (News)
In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels (NYT)
Seattle Commuter is Shot in the Chest While Biking Home (Peter McKay)
Congestion Pricing is Facing an Uphill Battle in San Francisco... (SF Examiner)
...Road Pricing Is Best When Revenues Go Towards More Roads (SF Chronicle)
Study Links Daylight Savings Shift to Pedestrian Fatality Increase (AP)
"Cinematic Splendor" of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: The Symphony (NYT)

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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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