Today’s Headlines
With Americans Driving Less, Highway Deaths Dropped 9 Percent in 2008 (NYT) Senate Dems Turning Their Attention Back to MTA Rescue (Politicker) Service Cuts to Begin in June; Senate Republicans Say They’ll Talk, But Not About Payroll Tax (NY1) TWU Launches TV Ads Targeting NYC’s Senate GOP Contingent (News) News Columnist: Tolling Bridges = ‘Class Warfare’ … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:57 AM EDT on April 7, 2009
- With Americans Driving Less, Highway Deaths Dropped 9 Percent in 2008 (NYT)
- Senate Dems Turning Their Attention Back to MTA Rescue (Politicker)
- Service Cuts to Begin in June; Senate Republicans Say They’ll Talk, But Not About Payroll Tax (NY1)
- TWU Launches TV Ads Targeting NYC’s Senate GOP Contingent (News)
- News Columnist: Tolling Bridges = ‘Class Warfare’
- Clyde Haberman: Albany Needs a Lesson from the Great Philosophers (NYT)
- NYT Likes Schumer’s Cash-for-Clunkers Bill
- Ex-Pols Register Vanity Plates Just Like Their Old, Park-Anywhere Versions (News)
- Post Stirs Anti-Enforcement Rage With Report on Red Light Cam Expansion
- IL Legislature Approves $496M in Capital Projects for Chicago Transit (CTA Tattler via Streetsblog.net)
- Commuter Bike Porn (A Continuous Lean)
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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