Today’s Headlines
Enviro Groups Send Obama Their Transition Plan… (Grist, HuffPo) …Here Are the NRDC’s Recs on Transpo Policy (Switchboard) Stimulus Talk Fuels Speculation About NY’s Transpo Mega Projects (Newsday) Hasidic Leader Asks Buses to Block Traffic in Protest of Kent Ave Bike Lane (Bklyn Paper) Broad Channel Drivers Vow Civil Disobedience If MTA Rescinds Their Bridge … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:05 AM EST on November 26, 2008
- Enviro Groups Send Obama Their Transition Plan… (Grist, HuffPo)
- …Here Are the NRDC’s Recs on Transpo Policy (Switchboard)
- Stimulus Talk Fuels Speculation About NY’s Transpo Mega Projects (Newsday)
- Hasidic Leader Asks Buses to Block Traffic in Protest of Kent Ave Bike Lane (Bklyn Paper)
- Broad Channel Drivers Vow Civil Disobedience If MTA Rescinds Their Bridge Toll Rebates (News)
- FedEx Trucks Won’t Have a Hub in Astoria’s Asthma Alley (City Room)
- Cap’n Transit: Make the MTA a Department, Not an Authority
- More on the MTA’s New Text Alert System (NYT, Post, NY1)
- Markowitz to Fight for More Power in the Hands of Beeps (Post)
- Bike Talk: Earl Blumenauer Does a Quick Interview With Parade
- Manhattan as Seen From the Waterfront Greenway (NYer)
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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