Today’s Headlines
Texas Spending $181M in Stimulus Cash on 15-Mile Highway Outside Houston (NYT) Most Transit Riders Support Bridge Tolls, But This Story Is All About the Ones Who Don’t (NYT) Nation’s Transit Systems Still in Crisis (WSJ) MTA Finance Board Votes Today on Doomsday Fare Hikes (Newsday) Paterson Expects State Leg to Blow Deadline on MTA … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on March 23, 2009
- Texas Spending $181M in Stimulus Cash on 15-Mile Highway Outside Houston (NYT)
- Most Transit Riders Support Bridge Tolls, But This Story Is All About the Ones Who Don’t (NYT)
- Nation’s Transit Systems Still in Crisis (WSJ)
- MTA Finance Board Votes Today on Doomsday Fare Hikes (Newsday)
- Paterson Expects State Leg to Blow Deadline on MTA Plan (Newsday)
- News Castigates Smith and Skelos for State Senate’s Hold-Up of Transit Rescue
- Drunk Driver Crashes Into Queens Laundromat, Injuring Elderly Man (News)
- BID Wants to Give Flatbush Ave a Main Street Makeover (Bklyn Paper)
- Working Families Party Asks for “Consultation” on City’s Land Use Decisions (Post)
- Status Report on Lower Manhattan Bike Lanes (Cyclosity)
- Virginia Takes Aim at Cul-de-Sacs (WaPo via Beyond DC 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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