Today’s Headlines
Bloomberg Assails Parking “Grace Period” (News) NYT Profiles Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Bike Advocate Seattle to Replace Elevated Highway With Underground Highway (Seattle Transit via Streetsblog.net) NYT: New York Dems Putting Off Promises to Reform Albany Subways Get Middling Grades From Rider Report Cards (Post) SI Assemblyman in a Huff Over Green MetroCard Idea (SI Advance … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:04 AM EST on January 13, 2009
- Bloomberg Assails Parking “Grace Period” (News)
- NYT Profiles Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Bike Advocate
- Seattle to Replace Elevated Highway With Underground Highway (Seattle Transit via Streetsblog.net)
- NYT: New York Dems Putting Off Promises to Reform Albany
- Subways Get Middling Grades From Rider Report Cards (Post)
- SI Assemblyman in a Huff Over Green MetroCard Idea (SI Advance via 2nd Ave Sagas)
- Parking Tickets Down in Much of Lower Manhattan (Villager)
- Firefighter Caught Trying to Escape Ticket for Blocking Hydrant With SUV (News)
- City to Reconstruct Cobblestone DUMBO Streets (Bklyn Paper)
- Third-Gen Bike-Share Is Coming to Turkey (Today’s Zaman)
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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