Today’s Headlines
U.S. Car Sales Reach 15-Year Low (NYT, AP) Downward Trend in VMT Continued in July (Reuters via Treehugger) Third Term for Bloomberg Welcomed by Unnamed Environmentalists (WSJ) Marty Markowitz Can’t Wait for Term Limits to Be Extended (City Room, News) SUV Hits Two Pedestrians in Midtown, and the Post Has a Laugh Judging the CityRacks … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EDT on October 2, 2008
- U.S. Car Sales Reach 15-Year Low (NYT, AP)
- Downward Trend in VMT Continued in July (Reuters via Treehugger)
- Third Term for Bloomberg Welcomed by Unnamed Environmentalists (WSJ)
- Marty Markowitz Can’t Wait for Term Limits to Be Extended (City Room, News)
- SUV Hits Two Pedestrians in Midtown, and the Post Has a Laugh
- Judging the CityRacks Design Finalists (KonradProjects)
- More on MTA’s Multi-Purpose Sidewalk Grates (City Room, NY1)
- Port Authority Arranges $152M Reno of GWB Bus Station (NYT)
- Riverdale Press Lashes Out at Parking Reform, Walking
- The Wrong Reasons to Support the Bailout (Cap’n Transit)
- Cubs Ace Ryan Dempster Walks to Work (WaPo)
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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