Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

MTA Rescue Held Up as Smith Questions Doomsday Deadline (City Room, News, Politicker, MTR) News: Ravitch Holdouts Are Betraying Their Constituents Carl Kruger‘s Alternative ‘Plan’ Is Crazy (NY Fiscal Watch via Daily Politics) Ravitch Opponent Ruben Diaz, Sr Says He’s Being Attacked Because of His Race (Room 8) Bus Ridership Booming in Queens as Doomsday … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:06 AM EDT on March 11, 2009

MTA Rescue Held Up as Smith Questions Doomsday Deadline (City Room, News, Politicker, MTR)
News: Ravitch Holdouts Are Betraying Their Constituents
Carl Kruger‘s Alternative ‘Plan’ Is Crazy (NY Fiscal Watch via Daily Politics)
Ravitch Opponent Ruben Diaz, Sr Says He’s Being Attacked Because of His Race (Room 8)
Bus Ridership Booming in Queens as Doomsday Cuts Loom (News)
NYPD Plans Crackdown on Cellphone-Using Drivers (City Room, NY1)
Bloomberg Unveils Plan to Haul Away Brooklyn Trash With Trains, Not Trucks (City Room)
Mayor Expected to Identify NYC’s Transpo Stim Projects This Week (Post)
Yglesias: Expand Transit Capacity Before Gas Prices Rebound
Advocates Fight Oregon Proposal to Require Bicycle Registration (BikePortland 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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