Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

New York Traffic Getting a Lot of Attention From DC (Newsday) States Should Have Known They Were Being Suckered on Emissions (NYT) Bush Likes Congestion Pricing; Bronx CB 8 Doesn’t Senator Jeff Klein: Free Parking Equals ‘Decent Quality of Life’ (R’dale Press) Fare Increase Was a Done Deal, Dictated by Albany Inaction (NYT) With New … Continued

By Brad Aaron

8:51 AM EST on December 21, 2007

New York Traffic Getting a Lot of Attention From DC (Newsday)
States Should Have Known They Were Being Suckered on Emissions (NYT)
Bush Likes Congestion Pricing; Bronx CB 8 Doesn’t
Senator Jeff Klein: Free Parking Equals ‘Decent Quality of Life’ (R’dale Press)
Fare Increase Was a Done Deal, Dictated by Albany Inaction (NYT)
With New Fuzzy Math Discount, MTA Will Keep the Change (NYT)
Brodsky, Weiner and Gotbaum Line Up to Push 7 Line Stop (NYT)
Sander Takes the Train; MTA Board Needs Free Ride Incentive
Protesters See Hypocrisy in Washington Square Park Tree Removal (Post, AMNY)
72 New Bike Racks for Fort Greene (Brooklyn Paper)
NYPD Tests Quiet, ‘Clean’ Two-Wheeler, But It’s Not a Bike (AMNY)
Vote for 2007’s Greenest and Meanest (Grist)

Brad Aaron

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.

Today's Headlines

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