Today’s Headlines
America’s First Public-Private Bikeshare System Ready to Roll in D.C. (NYT) Surge in Popularity for Employer-Subsidized Transit (Biz Week) Traffic, Ped Safety Top New Yorkers’ Quality of Life Concerns (AMNY) Teenager Killed Crossing Brooklyn Street (Newsday) Price of Gas Hasn’t Hit Ceiling Yet (Sun) Upstate Pols Campaign Against Gas Tax (Politics on the Hudson) Rising … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EDT on April 28, 2008
- America’s First Public-Private Bikeshare System Ready to Roll in D.C. (NYT)
- Surge in Popularity for Employer-Subsidized Transit (Biz Week)
- Traffic, Ped Safety Top New Yorkers’ Quality of Life Concerns (AMNY)
- Teenager Killed Crossing Brooklyn Street (Newsday)
- Price of Gas Hasn’t Hit Ceiling Yet (Sun)
- Upstate Pols Campaign Against Gas Tax (Politics on the Hudson)
- Rising Fuel Prices May Curtail Field Trips for City Schools (Post)
- More Cabbies Driving Hybrids (NYT)
- New York Thruway Tolls Set to Rise (NY1)
- Curb Cuts Pit Neighbor Against Neighbor in Dyker Heights (NYT)
- Cap’n Transit Critiques COMMUTE’s BRT Plan
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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