Today’s Headlines
Americans Buying Smaller Cars (NYT) New Yorkers Scale Back Travel Plans, Support Gas Tax Cut (Post) Clinton Pushes Congress to Pick a Side on Gas Tax Holiday (Fox) NYC Fails Air Quality Tests (Crain’s) Vito Fossella Arrested for Drunk Driving (NYT, WaPo) Tim Rutten Is L.A.’s Brodsky (LAT via Planetizen) MTA Chair Campaigns to Improve … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:57 AM EDT on May 2, 2008
- Americans Buying Smaller Cars (NYT)
- New Yorkers Scale Back Travel Plans, Support Gas Tax Cut (Post)
- Clinton Pushes Congress to Pick a Side on Gas Tax Holiday (Fox)
- NYC Fails Air Quality Tests (Crain’s)
- Vito Fossella Arrested for Drunk Driving (NYT, WaPo)
- Tim Rutten Is L.A.’s Brodsky (LAT via Planetizen)
- MTA Chair Campaigns to Improve Agency’s Image (News, NY1)
- Ads Coming to Exterior of Subway Cars (NY1)
- Classic 1972 Transit Map Gets an Update (City Room)
- Auditioning to Busk In the Subways (NYT, Post, News)
- A Step Toward Making Suburban America a Little Less Car Dependent (Yglesias)
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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