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Today’s Headlines

No Transit Strike This Time: MTA and TWU Agree to Binding Arbitration (NYT, NY1) Queens Pol’s Campaign Driver — License Suspended — Hits and Kills Child (NYT, News, Post) Brennan Center: Malcolm Smith and Dem Conference Can Reform State Senate (News) Martin Malave Dilan Is the New State Senate Transpo Committee Chair (Daily Politics) Nassau … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:07 AM EST on January 7, 2009

No Transit Strike This Time: MTA and TWU Agree to Binding Arbitration (NYT, NY1)
Queens Pol’s Campaign Driver — License Suspended — Hits and Kills Child (NYT, News, Post)
Brennan Center: Malcolm Smith and Dem Conference Can Reform State Senate (News)
Martin Malave Dilan Is the New State Senate Transpo Committee Chair (Daily Politics)
Nassau County DA Doesn’t Water Down Charges Against DWI Killers (60 Minutes)
Oregon Gov Pushes for VMT Tax (Corvallis Times via Planetizen)
Traffic Agent Vehicles Giving Traffic Agents a Bad Name in the Bronx (News)
Ex-MTA Board Member Clings to Rescinded Parking Placard (News)
Cap’n Transit: Jerrold Nadler the ‘Transit Candidate’ for Clinton’s Senate Seat
Resolving Not to Get in a Car in 2009 (Car-Free USA via Streetsblog.net)

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.

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