Street Safety

Today’s Headlines

Brodsky Proposes 11th Hour ‘Congestion Plan’ (City Room, Sun) With Bloomberg Out, Nader Is the Only Carbon Tax Candidate (Carbon Tax Blog) Oil Touches $103 per Barrel, Boosting Inflation Fears (BBC) Stolen Car Crashes in Bay Ridge, Kills One, Injures Three (NYT, Post) Subway Fare Hike Takes Effect on Sunday (News, AMNY) Ratner Scraps MetroTech … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:57 AM EST on February 29, 2008

Brodsky Proposes 11th Hour ‘Congestion Plan’ (City Room, Sun)
With Bloomberg Out, Nader Is the Only Carbon Tax Candidate (Carbon Tax Blog)
Oil Touches $103 per Barrel, Boosting Inflation Fears (BBC)
Stolen Car Crashes in Bay Ridge, Kills One, Injures Three (NYT, Post)
Subway Fare Hike Takes Effect on Sunday (News, AMNY)
Ratner Scraps MetroTech Tower; May Scale Back Yards Too (Curbed, Crain’s)
Angelenos Ask: Are Streets For Cars or People? (LA Times via Planetizen)
Minnesota Transpo Chief Fired for Bridge Collapse (AP)
While in Bogotá, Don’t Miss Ciclovía (TONY)

Ben Fried

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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