Today’s Headlines
Bloomberg Will Limit Parking Perk (NYT, Sun, News) NYPD Rant and City Room Both Give Credit Where It’s Due “This is a Big Step Towards Less Congested Streets” (T.A.) One Year After Governor Spitzer’s “Day One” What Has Changed? (MTR) “Awesomely Bad” Hudson Yards Plans Show Public Process is Broken (Planetizen) So Check Out MAS’s … Continued
9:35 AM EST on January 4, 2008
- Bloomberg Will Limit Parking Perk (NYT, Sun, News)
- NYPD Rant and City Room Both Give Credit Where It’s Due
- “This is a Big Step Towards Less Congested Streets” (T.A.)
- One Year After Governor Spitzer’s “Day One” What Has Changed? (MTR)
- “Awesomely Bad” Hudson Yards Plans Show Public Process is Broken (Planetizen)
- So Check Out MAS’s “Civic Activist Boot Camp” Video (Sheridan Swap)
- Don’t Lock Your Bike to This Subway Railing (Gowanus Lounge)
- Americans Finally Stop Buying Pick-Up Trucks (NYT)
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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