Today’s Headlines
No Parking Spot? Here Are About 142,000 Reasons (NYT) Twice as Many Parking Placards Issued as City Hall Thought (Sun) Auxiliary Cops See Parking Permit Cut as an Insult (NYT) Chicago Gets More Than 400 New Traffic Enforcement Cams Moynihan Station Plan is Sputtering (NYT) Cuomo Improves Albany Transparency Web Site (Times Union) OPEC Tells … Continued
8:51 AM EST on March 6, 2008
- No Parking Spot? Here Are About 142,000 Reasons (NYT)
- Twice as Many Parking Placards Issued as City Hall Thought (Sun)
- Auxiliary Cops See Parking Permit Cut as an Insult (NYT)
- Chicago Gets More Than 400 New Traffic Enforcement Cams
- Moynihan Station Plan is Sputtering (NYT)
- Cuomo Improves Albany Transparency Web Site (Times Union)
- OPEC Tells Bush High Oil Prices Are His Fault (NYT)
- NYC #2 on List of Cities Most Prepared for $4 Gallon (Common Current)
- Bush: My 20-Car Motorcade Isn’t Helping the US to “Get Off Oil” (Huff Post)
- EPA Drags Its Feet on Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Regs (Grist)
- Climate Change Prompts Changes in Transportation Planning
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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