Today’s Headlines
MTA Releases Timeline of Doomsday Service Cuts (News) Dem Leaders Say They Need Republican Votes for Transit Funding Plan (NY1) Silver Asks Upstate GOP Sens. to Support MTA Rescue and Gets Rebuffed (Politicker) Straphangers Campaign to Leaflet Riders in Carl Kruger’s District (Daily Politics) Hit-and-Run Van Driver Kills Queens Grandmother on Jamaica Ave (News, NYT) … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:06 AM EDT on April 8, 2009
- MTA Releases Timeline of Doomsday Service Cuts (News)
- Dem Leaders Say They Need Republican Votes for Transit Funding Plan (NY1)
- Silver Asks Upstate GOP Sens. to Support MTA Rescue and Gets Rebuffed (Politicker)
- Straphangers Campaign to Leaflet Riders in Carl Kruger’s District (Daily Politics)
- Hit-and-Run Van Driver Kills Queens Grandmother on Jamaica Ave (News, NYT)
- Red Light Cam Expansion Clears Assembly and State Senate (Newsday)
- News Takes Segway Recliner for a Spin, Imagines the Easy Parking; Post Mocks Its Top Speed
- Williamsburg Walks Is Coming Back for Another Summer of Car-Free Saturdays (Bklyn Paper)
- Driving Kills Millions of Animals Every Year, Walking Doesn’t (Salon)
- Orphan Road Ponders the Future of Mixed-Use Development in Seattle (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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