Today’s Headlines
Streetsblog is running our weekend news wrap-up in two sections this morning. Links to coverage of Saturday's inaugural Summer Streets event will be posted separately.
By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EDT on August 11, 2008
Streetsblog is running our weekend news wrap-up in two sections this morning. Links to coverage of Saturday’s inaugural Summer Streets event will be posted separately.
- Friedman: How Energy Taxes Helped Denmark Kick Its Oil Habit
- Contested Streets Now a National Trend (NYT)
- NYT Assesses Red Hook Ikea
- Bloomberg Weighs in on Bridge Tolls (News)
- Gas Prices Dip Below $4/Gallon at Some New York Pumps (News)
- State Senate Approves Gansevoort Waste Transfer Station (News)
- NYT Reviews Tom Vanderbilt’s ‘Traffic’
- NYC Joins 20 Other Cities in Measuring Carbon Footprints (Post)
- Yglesias: No One Is Arguing That the U.S. Should Be Car-Free; Driving Should Just Be Rarer
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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