Today’s Headlines
New York Times: City Needs Congestion Pricing, Especially Below 60th Street The Best Way to Get Trucks Out of Bike Lanes? Parking Reform (Alpie) Water Taxi Suspends South Brooklyn Service (Post, Curbed) Ted Kheel Talks to Metro About Free Subways Five Intersections in Hipster Williamsburg Get New Stoplights (Metro) Subway Surveillance is Over Budget, Behind … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:35 AM EST on January 24, 2008
- New York Times: City Needs Congestion Pricing, Especially Below 60th Street
- The Best Way to Get Trucks Out of Bike Lanes? Parking Reform (Alpie)
- Water Taxi Suspends South Brooklyn Service (Post, Curbed)
- Ted Kheel Talks to Metro About Free Subways
- Five Intersections in Hipster Williamsburg Get New Stoplights (Metro)
- Subway Surveillance is Over Budget, Behind Schedule (Post, News, AP)
- TLC Secret Agents to Keep Cabbies in Line (Post, News, City Room)
- Cop Who Mowed Down Fellow Officer Gets Reduced Sentence (Post, News, AM)
- Related’s Pier 40 Proposal Will Add Traffic, Harm Bikeway (Villager)
- Proposed 125th Street Rezoning Inflames Passions (Curbed)
- US Ranked Last Among G8 Nations in Environmental Performance (NYT)
- BRT Better for Kansas City Than Light Rail, Say Libertarians (KC Star)
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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