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 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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