Today’s Headlines

9:16 AM EST on December 24, 2008

U.S. Automakers Shutting Down Remaining S.U.V. Plants (NYT)
While States Halt Road Projects and Hope for Stimulus Money (NYT, Vegas Now)
Convert That Automaking Capacity to Wind and Transit (Huff Post, Seattle PI)
Or a Full-on National Make-Over, Argues Thomas Friedman (NYT)
Cargo Trikes Edging Out Delivery Trucks in Cambridge, MA (CSM)
City Breaks Ground on a New Courthouse and 60% of This Story is About Parking
Dellaverson Oversees $500M Loss in MTA Pension Fund (News)
A Rare Snow Day Allows Seattlites to Discover the Joys of Street Life (Stranger)
Yassky's Had Enough of the Vendors on Court Street (News)
"The Last Traffic Jam" 1972-Style (Atlantic via Kottke)
What Would Jane Jacobs Do With Dubai? (Metropolis via Planetizen)
Even Click and Clack are Pushing a Gas Tax (Hub & Spokes via Sblog.Net)

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Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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