Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Enjoy the holiday everyone. We'll be back posting regularly tomorrow.

By Ben Fried

9:41 AM EST on February 16, 2009

With Stimulus a Done Deal, Cities and States Jockey for Funding (NYT)
Invest Those Stim Bucks in Bike Boulevards (Citiwire)
Highway Expansions: Not Compatible With a Green Recovery (NPR)
Driver With Terrible Record Kills Staten Island Couple in Hit-and-Run Crash (Gothamist, News)
Arrests for Turnstile Jumping on the Rise (Post)
D Train Derails on Upper West Side (City Room)
Obama: No Car Czar for Detroit Restructuring (NYT)
Bloomberg Gets a Bigger Trial Run for Pedestrian Countdown Timers (Post)
News Tours Transpo Hub Portion of WTC Construction Site
Ped Advocates in Pune, India Protest Unsafe Streets (New Mobility Thinkpad via Streetsblog.net)

Enjoy the holiday everyone. We’ll be back posting regularly tomorrow.

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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