Today’s Headlines
$2.50 Base Fare, $103 Monthly Pass on the Way Without MTA Rescue (News, NY1, Post) Skelos: Senate GOP Would Work With Paterson on Transit Funding (Newsday) Now You Can Track Proposed Transit Cuts by District (MTR) U.S. DOT and HUD Team Up to Promote Transit-Oriented Development (Streetsblog SF, Bellows) NYC Population Swelling as Fewer New … Continued
By
Ben Fried
7:53 AM EDT on March 19, 2009
- $2.50 Base Fare, $103 Monthly Pass on the Way Without MTA Rescue (News, NY1, Post)
- Skelos: Senate GOP Would Work With Paterson on Transit Funding (Newsday)
- Now You Can Track Proposed Transit Cuts by District (MTR)
- U.S. DOT and HUD Team Up to Promote Transit-Oriented Development (Streetsblog SF, Bellows)
- NYC Population Swelling as Fewer New Yorkers Move Out of Town (NYT, Post)
- City Gives Drivers Permission to Block Pedestrian Curb Cuts in Bay Ridge (Bklyn Paper)
- Motorcycle Ass’n Spent DMV Safety Training Money on Luxuries, Frills, and Hogs (AP)
- New Ferry Terminal Opens in Lower Manhattan (NY1)
- Ground Floor Retail Gone Bad (A Fine Company)
- Volunteers Collaborate on Creating a Bike Map for New Orleans (Urban Cincy 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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