Today’s Headlines
Paterson: Deal on MTA Rescue Plan Must Be Cut Within a Week (News, NY1, 2nd Ave Sagas) News Calls on State Leaders to Enact Ravitch Recs Obama Calls for Carbon Cap, Fuel-Efficient Cars in Address to Congress (Grist) TSTC’s Perspective on the Ravitch Payroll Tax (MTR) Autopia Publishes a Plea to End Auto Dependence How … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on February 25, 2009
- Paterson: Deal on MTA Rescue Plan Must Be Cut Within a Week (News, NY1, 2nd Ave Sagas)
- News Calls on State Leaders to Enact Ravitch Recs
- Obama Calls for Carbon Cap, Fuel-Efficient Cars in Address to Congress (Grist)
- TSTC’s Perspective on the Ravitch Payroll Tax (MTR)
- Autopia Publishes a Plea to End Auto Dependence
- How Should Stim Funding for High-Speed Rail Be Spent? (NPR)
- LaHood Hints at Greater Federal Support for Urban Transit Systems (TOW)
- Paterson Announces State’s First Stim Projects — All Upstate (Gothamist)
- Markowitz Wants to Repair Coney Island Boardwalk With Stim Funds (News)
- New York Has Three New City Council Members; Michael Ricatto Not Among Them (News)
- Arizona to Consider Idaho-Style ‘Rolling Stop’ for Cyclists (Tucson Bike Lawyer 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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