Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

MTA Announces $61M in Budget Cuts For NYC Transit (AMNY, NY1) Interior Dept Authorizes Oil Drilling on Alaskan Parcel (NYT) Feds Deny Further Funds For Fulton Transit Hub (News) Underground Construction at WTC Transit Hub Shows Signs of Progress (NY1) New Subway Entrances Open at Columbus Circle (NY1, NYT) Ikea Customers Getting Preferential Treatment on … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:01 AM EDT on July 17, 2008

MTA Announces $61M in Budget Cuts For NYC Transit (AMNY, NY1)
Interior Dept Authorizes Oil Drilling on Alaskan Parcel (NYT)
Feds Deny Further Funds For Fulton Transit Hub (News)
Underground Construction at WTC Transit Hub Shows Signs of Progress (NY1)
New Subway Entrances Open at Columbus Circle (NY1, NYT)
Ikea Customers Getting Preferential Treatment on Red Hook Water Taxi (Post)
Agents to Start Enforcing Fare-Beating Fines on Select Bus Service (News)
Auto Makers Agree to Make More Hybrid Cabs Available for NYC Taxi Fleet (NY1, City Room, Post)
Crosstown Buses — Pokier Than Pedestrians (2nd Ave Sagas)
Drivers Say They Can’t Drive 55, Gas Savings Be Damned (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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