Today’s Headlines
Stimulus Compromise Would Cut Spending in Recovery Bill (NYT) Amtrak Funding Might Be on the Chopping Block (Trains for America) Lesson From Japan: Obsession With Building New Roads Weakened Stimulus (NYT) Todd Litman: Reducing Car Dependence = Smart Stimulus (Planetizen) GM Says Plug-in Volt Will Debut in DC Next Year (WaPo via Yglesias) Is “Green … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:11 AM EST on February 6, 2009
- Stimulus Compromise Would Cut Spending in Recovery Bill (NYT)
- Amtrak Funding Might Be on the Chopping Block (Trains for America)
- Lesson From Japan: Obsession With Building New Roads Weakened Stimulus (NYT)
- Todd Litman: Reducing Car Dependence = Smart Stimulus (Planetizen)
- GM Says Plug-in Volt Will Debut in DC Next Year (WaPo via Yglesias)
- Is “Green Car” an Oxymoron? (scaledown via Streetsblog.net)
- Hope for Albany? Malcolm Smith Hires Brennan Center‘s Andrew Stengel (Daily Politics)
- MTA Gets Real-Time Subway Location Display Up and Running (NY1, City Room)
- Brooklyn Locals Discuss Potentially Fatal Collision at Eighth and Carroll (Brooklynian)
- The New Yorker Retraces John Updike’s Hidden Midtown Path
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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