- MTA Board Meets This Morning to Plan for Impending Doomsday (News)
- Protesters Tell Diaz Sr to Get Behind Bridge Tolls (City Room, MTR)
- Ravitch: A Stopgap Transit Fix Means Worse Pain Down the Line (NYT)
- Kheel and Komanoff Pitch Their MTA Rescue Plan in Newsday
- NYT Calls Out Smith, Kruger, and Other Obstacles to Transit Funding
- Without Bridge Tolls, City Will Miss Out on Extensive New Bus Service (Post)
- News Reporter Lays Bare His Own Windshield Perspective
- Cops Issued 4,000 Driving-While-Phoning Tickets Yesterday (Post)
- Port Authority Accepting Bids for ARC Tunnel Construction (NY1)
- Washington State Legislators Kill Smart Growth Bill (HugeAssCity via Streetsblog.net)
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