Today’s Headlines
GM, Chrysler Ask for Another Handout, This One for $14 Billion (NYT) Obama Signs Stimulus Bill Into Law (NYT) Why the Prez Made High Speed Rail a Stimulus Priority (Politico) Transpo Sec LaHood on How Stim Money Will Be Spent (Transportation for America) More Responses to David Brooks (Joe Urban, Discovering Urbanism) Lentol at Mock … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:01 AM EST on February 18, 2009
- GM, Chrysler Ask for Another Handout, This One for $14 Billion (NYT)
- Obama Signs Stimulus Bill Into Law (NYT)
- Why the Prez Made High Speed Rail a Stimulus Priority (Politico)
- Transpo Sec LaHood on How Stim Money Will Be Spent (Transportation for America)
- More Responses to David Brooks (Joe Urban, Discovering Urbanism)
- Lentol at Mock G Funeral: ‘We Will Get a Plan Down That Saves the Subway System’ (News)
- Bronx Beep Carrion Heads to DC to Oversee Office of Urban Policy (News)
- MTA Won’t Use Stim Funds to Bail Out Atlantic Yards; Paterson Still Might (Post)
- To WSJ Columnist, ‘Smart Transportation’ = Gadgetry for Roads and Cars
- Memphis Airport Security Takes Sticker on a Bike Too Literally (Urban Velo via Streetsblog.net)
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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