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Today’s Headlines

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.

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