Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

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 … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:10 AM EDT on March 13, 2009

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)

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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