Today’s Headlines
Ravitch Proposes Revised MTA Rescue Plan, Including Some Toll Exemptions (News, NY1, Post) Fare Hike Four Obstinate as Ever (NYT) Which Senate Republicans Might Flip? (Politicker) A Two-Way Protected Bike Path for Prospect Park West? DOT Presents to CB6 Tonight (Bklyn Paper) Drunk Driver Victim Dies After Ambulance Collides With Car En Route to Hospital … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:06 AM EDT on April 16, 2009
- Ravitch Proposes Revised MTA Rescue Plan, Including Some Toll Exemptions (News, NY1, Post)
- Fare Hike Four Obstinate as Ever (NYT)
- Which Senate Republicans Might Flip? (Politicker)
- A Two-Way Protected Bike Path for Prospect Park West? DOT Presents to CB6 Tonight (Bklyn Paper)
- Drunk Driver Victim Dies After Ambulance Collides With Car En Route to Hospital (Post)
- MTR on Astrid Glynn‘s Unfinished Reforms at State DOT
- NYT Style Section Says Dutch Bikes Are Where It’s At
- Open Shuttered Subway Entrances on Flatbush Ave, Brooklynites Tell MTA (Bklyn Paper)
- DC-Area Planners Propose Regional BRT Network (GGW)
- What’s an ‘Idaho Stop’ for Cyclists, Legally Speaking? (Cyclelicous 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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