Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Pols Take Shots at MTA Over Prospect of Fare Hike (NYT, News, Newsday, Post, AMNY) At City Hall, Activists Call For Federal Transit Aid (SI Live) NYT: Straphangers Need Albany and City Hall to Deliver Funds Commuters Blame MTA (NY1) Each Subway Line to Get Its Own Manager in Bid to Streamline Bureaucracy (News) Debunking … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:02 AM EDT on July 23, 2008

Pols Take Shots at MTA Over Prospect of Fare Hike (NYT, News, Newsday, Post, AMNY)
At City Hall, Activists Call For Federal Transit Aid (SI Live)
NYT: Straphangers Need Albany and City Hall to Deliver Funds
Commuters Blame MTA (NY1)
Each Subway Line to Get Its Own Manager in Bid to Streamline Bureaucracy (News)
Debunking McCain’s ‘Pump’ Ad (FactCheck)
Bush Admin Moves to Increase Oil Shale Production (Gristmill)
What About America’s Least Walkable Cities? (TreeHugger)
Believe It or Not: GM, Ford ‘On Verge of Bankruptcy’ (Bloomberg)
National Mall Needs a Facelift (Newsweek)

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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