Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Weiner, Local Pols Unwilling to Fund NYC’s Transit System (NYT) It’s Official: Carrión to Head White House Urban Affairs Office (WaPo, News, The Caucus) What Next for High Speed Rail Stimulus Funds? (NYT) Markowitz Lobbies for Stim Cash for Atlantic Yards (News) Cyclist Assaulter Patrick Pogan No Longer a Cop (NYT, News, Post) Bloomberg Touts … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:04 AM EST on February 20, 2009

Weiner, Local Pols Unwilling to Fund NYC’s Transit System (NYT)
It’s Official: Carrión to Head White House Urban Affairs Office (WaPo, News, The Caucus)
What Next for High Speed Rail Stimulus Funds? (NYT)
Markowitz Lobbies for Stim Cash for Atlantic Yards (News)
Cyclist Assaulter Patrick Pogan No Longer a Cop (NYT, News, Post)
Bloomberg Touts 7 Line Extension, Takes Swipe at 2nd Ave Subway Construction (NY1, Post )
Dear David Brooks… (NYT)
Sidewalk Parking Gov’t Vehicles Menace Financial District (Curbed)
CA Budget Deal Guts Transit Funding, Preserves Cheap Gas Prices (Streetsblog LA)
St. Louis Streets Ready for Road Diets (Urban Review STL via Streetsblog.net)

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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