Today’s Headlines
NYT, News Outline DOT’s Plans for Midtown ‘Broadway Boulevard’ Queens Assemblywoman Ellen Young Struck by Taxi While Biking (Your Nabe) Two Bikes Added to Marty Markowitz’s Staff Vehicle Fleet (Bklyn Eagle) Fight Over Domestic Oil Drilling Heats Up in Congress (NYT) Republicans Hope to Get a Boost in November From High Gas Prices (Ithaca Journal) … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on July 11, 2008
- NYT, News Outline DOT’s Plans for Midtown ‘Broadway Boulevard’
- Queens Assemblywoman Ellen Young Struck by Taxi While Biking (Your Nabe)
- Two Bikes Added to Marty Markowitz’s Staff Vehicle Fleet (Bklyn Eagle)
- Fight Over Domestic Oil Drilling Heats Up in Congress (NYT)
- Republicans Hope to Get a Boost in November From High Gas Prices (Ithaca Journal)
- MTA Scales Back Subway Station Rehabs (AMNY)
- Obama Reaffirms Support for Passenger Rail (Railway Age)
- Long Island Woman Killed by Unoccupied Car in Her Garage (AP)
- CA Weighs Whether to Make It Legal for Cyclists to Treat Stoplights as Stop Signs (Carectomy)
- SUVs, What Are They Good For? (NYT)
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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