Today’s Headlines
More From Yesterday’s East Side Access Tunnel Press Tour (News, NY1) Bikes Vs. Cars!!! The National Media Gets Into It (MSNBC) NY State Thruway Traffic (and Toll Revenue) Plummets (Times Union) Damn the Gas Prices, Road Widenings Ahead! (Streetsblog LA) Transit Ridership Increasing in 75% of US Cities (Enviro Defense) Gas Prices May Revive Cities … Continued
9:16 AM EDT on July 18, 2008
- More From Yesterday’s East Side Access Tunnel Press Tour (News, NY1)
- Bikes Vs. Cars!!! The National Media Gets Into It (MSNBC)
- NY State Thruway Traffic (and Toll Revenue) Plummets (Times Union)
- Damn the Gas Prices, Road Widenings Ahead! (Streetsblog LA)
- Transit Ridership Increasing in 75% of US Cities (Enviro Defense)
- Gas Prices May Revive Cities (US News)
- 10 Good Things About $4 Gas (Time)
- Hysterical Reactions to Bike Lanes, Take 25 (Greenpoint Blog)
- MTA May Roll Out New Hybrid-Electric Buses This Fall (AMNY)
- NYPD Cars Clog Columbus Circle Bus Lane (Best of Trendy)
- Nine Injured in Staten Island DWI Crash (Post)
- Folks Getting Interested in Rutgers Professor John Pucher (American Prospect)
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.
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