Today’s Headlines
Opening on Broadway This Spring: 7 Blocks of Pedestrian Paradise (NYT, News, Post) Silver Proposes Scaled-Down East and Harlem River Bridge Tolls (NYT, News, Post) State Senate Dems Throw Fit About Bridge Tolls (News) News Tells NYC Reps to Get Their Priorities Straight and Fund Transit GM Nosedive Continues Unabated (NYT) Comptroller Audit Finds DOT … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:33 AM EST on February 26, 2009
- Opening on Broadway This Spring: 7 Blocks of Pedestrian Paradise (NYT, News, Post)
- Silver Proposes Scaled-Down East and Harlem River Bridge Tolls (NYT, News, Post)
- State Senate Dems Throw Fit About Bridge Tolls (News)
- News Tells NYC Reps to Get Their Priorities Straight and Fund Transit
- GM Nosedive Continues Unabated (NYT)
- Comptroller Audit Finds DOT Behind Schedule on Sidewalk Repairs (News)
- Third Ave Whole Foods and All Its Parking Take Step Closer to Construction (Bklyn Paper)
- Port Authority Director Chris Ward Fields Questions From City Room Readers
- Who’s Competing for High-Speed Rail Grants? (Transport Politic via Streetsblog.net)
- Infrastructurist Interviews Julia Christensen, Artist and National Expert on Big Box Reuse
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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