Today’s Headlines
MTA Budget Picture Grows Bleaker; Weekend Service to Suffer (NYT, News, NY1, Post) Subway Ridership Fell in January (City Room) City Installs Enforcement Cams to Catch Cabs in 34th Street Bus Lane (MTR, Post) Why the Auto Industry Bailout is Doomed (Boston Herald via Hugh Bartling) MTA Board Heads to Albany to Push for Ravitch … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:09 AM EST on February 24, 2009
- MTA Budget Picture Grows Bleaker; Weekend Service to Suffer (NYT, News, NY1, Post)
- Subway Ridership Fell in January (City Room)
- City Installs Enforcement Cams to Catch Cabs in 34th Street Bus Lane (MTR, Post)
- Why the Auto Industry Bailout is Doomed (Boston Herald via Hugh Bartling)
- MTA Board Heads to Albany to Push for Ravitch Plan (News)
- Transit Advos Launch Subway Ad Campaign for MTA Funding (MTR)
- Bob Herbert on America’s Lackluster Infrastructure Investment (NYT)
- VMT Dipped in December, But Not by Much (Worldchanging via Streetsblog.net)
- Robo Train Hits L Line Tracks (News)
- San Francisco Plans for Its First Pedestrian Priority Street (Streetsblog SF)
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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