Today's Headlines

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

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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