Today’s Headlines
- Drivers Adjust, Perhaps Permanently, to $4/Gallon Gas (NYT)
- Distance Americans Drive Makes Biggest Drop Since 1942 (Reuters)
- Police Sergeants' Union Issues New Counterfeit Parking Placards (Post)
- Another Sign of Rising Gas Prices: More Cops on Bikes (AP)
- Washington Post Takes the Measure of Cycling in NYC
- Past and Present MTA Honchos Get Free E-ZPasses for Life (News)
- More New Yorkers Taking Subway; Bus Ridership Remains Flat (AMNY)
- Drug-Addled Driver Strikes and Kills Woman in Brighton Beach (News, Post)
- Vigilantes Remove Parking Signs From Remote Queens Neighborhood (NYT)
- How Some Cities and Towns Are Responding to Higher Gas Prices (The Oil Drum: Local)
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