Today’s Headlines
G8 Climate Summit Yields Few Concrete Goals to Curb Emissions (NYT) DOT’s Bike-Share Announcement Makes a Splash (NYT, Post, Sun, News) In Parking Crackdown, NYPD Has Issued 1000 Summonses to Cops (Post) Greenwich Village, Midwood to Be Testing Grounds for Peak Rate Parking (NYT) City Comptroller: MTA Should Reconsider Capital Program Deferrals (Sun) MTA Trims … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:03 AM EDT on July 10, 2008
- G8 Climate Summit Yields Few Concrete Goals to Curb Emissions (NYT)
- DOT’s Bike-Share Announcement Makes a Splash (NYT, Post, Sun, News)
- In Parking Crackdown, NYPD Has Issued 1000 Summonses to Cops (Post)
- Greenwich Village, Midwood to Be Testing Grounds for Peak Rate Parking (NYT)
- City Comptroller: MTA Should Reconsider Capital Program Deferrals (Sun)
- MTA Trims $5M More From Operating Budget (News, Post)
- Letter to Albany: NYC Still Needs Congestion Pricing (NYT)
- New York Recognized as ‘Bike-Friendly Community’ (Metro)
- Brighton Subway Line Hailed as New York’s Most Charming (Sun)
- ‘Middle-Class Homeless’ Living Out of Their Cars (Breitbart via Carfree USA)
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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