Today’s Headlines
Republicans Won’t Back MTA Rescue Without Road and Bridge Funding (NYT, Newsday) Study: Particulate Pollution Shortens Life in Urban Areas (BBC) Most Straphangers in Ruben Diaz, Sr.’s District Are Just Fine With Bridge Tolls (WNYC) How Transit Doomsday Brinkmanship Played Out in Chicago (Politicker) Price of Oil Is on the Rise, and the Feds Still … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EDT on April 13, 2009
- Republicans Won’t Back MTA Rescue Without Road and Bridge Funding (NYT, Newsday)
- Study: Particulate Pollution Shortens Life in Urban Areas (BBC)
- Most Straphangers in Ruben Diaz, Sr.’s District Are Just Fine With Bridge Tolls (WNYC)
- How Transit Doomsday Brinkmanship Played Out in Chicago (Politicker)
- Price of Oil Is on the Rise, and the Feds Still Aren’t Funding Transit Service (Yglesias)
- High Anxiety at the New York Auto Show (NYT)
- City to Monitor Congestion in Lower Manhattan With High-Tech Network (NY1)
- Bus Line on the Chopping Block Gets Two New Shelters (NYT)
- Merchants Gripe About Construction of Bleecker St. Subway Connection (News)
- Architect Proposes Wrapping BQE in Solar Panels at Brooklyn Bridge Park (Bklyn Paper)
- St. Louis Streets Way Too Wide to Walk Across (STL Urban Workshop 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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