Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Obama Infrastructure Stimulus Plan: Ambitious, Still Vague (Grist, NYT) Bill Thompson: Raising Car Registration Fees Could Net $1B/Year for MTA (NYT, News, Post) Driver Kills Pedestrian Under FDR Drive in Harlem, Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter (News) Reduced Transit Service Means Longer Trips for 1.3M Straphangers (News) Bus Riders Fear Getting Stranded by MTA Cuts (NYT) … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:57 AM EST on November 24, 2008

Obama Infrastructure Stimulus Plan: Ambitious, Still Vague (Grist, NYT)
Bill Thompson: Raising Car Registration Fees Could Net $1B/Year for MTA (NYT, News, Post)
Driver Kills Pedestrian Under FDR Drive in Harlem, Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter (News)
Reduced Transit Service Means Longer Trips for 1.3M Straphangers (News)
Bus Riders Fear Getting Stranded by MTA Cuts (NYT)
Kerry, Specter Introduce Bill to Fund High-Speed Rail (Boston Globe)
WaPo: Raise the Gas Tax
Is the Moment Ripe for a National Carbon Tax? (Grist)
Former Michigan Sen. Spencer Abraham: Save Detroit (NYT)
Post Gives DOT Brass the Lee Sander Treatment

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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