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 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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