Today’s Headlines
Auto Industry Faces Across-the-Board Dive in New Car Sales (NYT) Albany Has Until March 25 to Address MTA Budget Gap (NY1) Op-Ed: Drivers Should Pay More Than What Ravitch Plan Asks For (Chelsea Now) UK Debates Safety Merits of Automatically Limiting Vehicle Speeds (BBC) More on the TLC’s Safety-Monitoring Camera Program (City Room) CB1 Chair … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:05 AM EST on January 6, 2009
- Auto Industry Faces Across-the-Board Dive in New Car Sales (NYT)
- Albany Has Until March 25 to Address MTA Budget Gap (NY1)
- Op-Ed: Drivers Should Pay More Than What Ravitch Plan Asks For (Chelsea Now)
- UK Debates Safety Merits of Automatically Limiting Vehicle Speeds (BBC)
- More on the TLC’s Safety-Monitoring Camera Program (City Room)
- CB1 Chair Won’t Explain Why Transpo Committee’s Teresa Toro Got Sacked (Bklyn Paper)
- MTR Reviews New York’s Year in Transportation
- Cap’n Transit Looks at Potential Midtown Tunnel Bus Routes
- Remember How the MTA Spent Its Surplus? (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Columbus Aims to Become America’s Next Great Biking City (Car Less Ohio via Streetsblog.net)
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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