Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Sheridan Expressway Now Even More Unnecessary (MTR) Texting-While-Driving Ban Has to Go Through Albany (Daily Politics) NYPD Developing Plan to Screen Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan (Crain’s) Imagining Seatless Subway Cars (NYT) City Workers Say Bus Diesel Fumes Made Them Sick, File Suit Against GM (NY1, Metro) Council Member Joseph Addabbo: ‘Fight the Hike’ (News) Biden … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:07 AM EDT on August 19, 2008

Sheridan Expressway Now Even More Unnecessary (MTR)
Texting-While-Driving Ban Has to Go Through Albany (Daily Politics)
NYPD Developing Plan to Screen Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan (Crain’s)
Imagining Seatless Subway Cars (NYT)
City Workers Say Bus Diesel Fumes Made Them Sick, File Suit Against GM (NY1, Metro)
Council Member Joseph Addabbo: ‘Fight the Hike’ (News)
Biden VP Pick Would Put Rail Advocate on Dem Ticket (Yglesias)
Contrasts Between Obama and McCain on Surface Transportation (Citiwire)
Taxpayer Dollars Fund PR Campaign for Highway Builders (Streetsblog LA)
CNN Catches Road Raging, Anti-Cyclist Doctor on Camera

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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