Today’s Headlines
- What New Yorkers Want From the Stimulus (NYT)
- Enviro Groups: Stimulus Draft a Failure on Green Transportation (TPM)
- Did Obama Team, Reid and Pelosi Shortchange Transit? (Grist)
- Oberstar Pins It on Outgoing U.S. DOT Staff (Open Left)
- Why Hire Construction Workers If You're Firing Bus Drivers? (StarTrib)
- NYT Suggests Subsidizing Hybrid Purchases, Ignores Carbon Tax
- Why Albany Needs Term Limits (MTR)
- DC Mayor: Pedicabs the 'Official Vehicle' of Inauguration (AustinBikeBlog via Streetsblog.net)
- The Inauguration as Car-Free Experiment (Obamathon Man)
- Ride the B or Q From Brooklyn to Manhattan to See the Restored 'Masstransiscope' (NY1)
Have a good Martin Luther King Jr. Day everyone. We'll be offline the rest of today and posting lightly tomorrow.
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