Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Bush Lifts Executive Orders Banning Offshore Oil Drilling (NYT) Ped Counts Show Streets Near Penn Station Need the Boulevard Treatment (MTR) MTA Plans to Introduce New Types of Ads in Subway Stations (NY1) Assemblyman Dov Hikind Wants to Hear About Unsafe Subway Conditions (AMNY) Notices About Service Changes Befuddle Straphangers (City Room, 2nd Ave Sagas) … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:01 AM EDT on July 15, 2008

Bush Lifts Executive Orders Banning Offshore Oil Drilling (NYT)
Ped Counts Show Streets Near Penn Station Need the Boulevard Treatment (MTR)
MTA Plans to Introduce New Types of Ads in Subway Stations (NY1)
Assemblyman Dov Hikind Wants to Hear About Unsafe Subway Conditions (AMNY)
Notices About Service Changes Befuddle Straphangers (City Room, 2nd Ave Sagas)
Low-Cost Competitors Join Fung Wah in Intercity Bus Market (Sun)
The Building Blocks of Bike Language (Planetizen)
Virtual Speed Bumps Work in Philly, at First (NYT)
SF Deploys Network of Sensors to Help Drivers Find Open Parking Spots (NYT)

Ben Fried

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.

Today's Headlines

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