Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More on Ray LaHood’s Confirmation Hearing (WaPo, NYT, AP) Hit-and-Run SUV Driver Kills Young Boy Crossing the Street in Canarsie (Post) Senate Coalition to Push for More Transit Funding in Stimulus Bill… (Open Left) …So Can New York Have Its Second Senator Already? (Yglesias) CNU: Use That Stimulus Cash to Create Connected Street Networks (Design … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:00 AM EST on January 22, 2009

More on Ray LaHood’s Confirmation Hearing (WaPo, NYT, AP)
Hit-and-Run SUV Driver Kills Young Boy Crossing the Street in Canarsie (Post)
Senate Coalition to Push for More Transit Funding in Stimulus Bill… (Open Left)
…So Can New York Have Its Second Senator Already? (Yglesias)
CNU: Use That Stimulus Cash to Create Connected Street Networks (Design NH via Streetsblog.net)
Ratner Tries to Renege on Transit Upgrades Promised in Atlantic Yards Deal (Post)
Sander Invokes ’70s Decrepitude to Make Case for MTA Capital Plan, Ravitch Recs (NY1)
Broad Channel and Rockaways Dominate Queens MTA Hearing (NY1)
Donald Shoup Tackles Shoddy Sidewalk Conditions in Los Angeles (Streetsblog LA)
Inauguration Transpo Plan Holds Up as DC Metro Sets Ridership Record (Baltimore Sun, WaPo)

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.

Today's Headlines

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