- 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)
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