Today’s Headlines
“This Is the World’s First Demand-Led Energy Shock.” (NYT) Higher Gas Prices Drive Suburban Housing Bust (NYT) Transit Hearings Hijacked by ‘Grandstanding’ Officials (Post) DOT Says Ped Safety Regs Would Be Ineffective and Costly (News) Driver Who Killed Eric Ng Pleads Guilty (Gothamist, NYT) More on Last Week’s Sad Brooklyn Pricing Hearing (Brooklyn Paper) The … Continued
By
Brad Aaron
10:04 AM EST on November 9, 2007
- “This Is the World’s First Demand-Led Energy Shock.” (NYT)
- Higher Gas Prices Drive Suburban Housing Bust (NYT)
- Transit Hearings Hijacked by ‘Grandstanding’ Officials (Post)
- DOT Says Ped Safety Regs Would Be Ineffective and Costly (News)
- Driver Who Killed Eric Ng Pleads Guilty (Gothamist, NYT)
- More on Last Week’s Sad Brooklyn Pricing Hearing (Brooklyn Paper)
- The Fidler Plan: Gem, or Folly? (Brooklyn Paper)
- Block-by-Block Parking Regs to Be Posted Online (Post)
- Muni-Meters Are Big in Bensonhurst (Brooklyn Paper)
- Free Parking Could Be the City’s One True Faith (NYT)
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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