Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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) … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:04 AM EST on December 4, 2008

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)

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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