Today's Headlines
Today’s Headlines
By Ben Fried
- Ravitch Plan Comes Out Today; Paterson 'Quite Pleased' With It (NYT, News, Newsday, Post, NY1)
- Believe It or Not, Motorists Don't Like the Idea of New Tolls (News)
- Thompson Makes His Pitch For Higher, Weight-Based Car Fees (News)
- Obama Stimulus Package Starting to Take Shape (NYT)
- UAW Offers Concessions to Keep Big Three Afloat (NYT)
- Carmakers Promise Congress They'll Boost Fuel Efficiency (Grist, City Fix)
- Elizabeth Kolbert on Detroit's Decades-Long Effort to Forestall Change (NYer)
- Brooklyn CB7 Reacts to Prospect Park Road Diet Compromise (Bklyn Paper)
- Teachers Caught Fabricating Numbers to Land Parking Permits (GothamSchools)
- Americans Want More Transit-Oriented Places to Live (GGW via Streetsblog.net)
- Anti-Transit Forces Are in Retreat (Overhead Wire)
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