Today’s Headlines
More on Senate Dems’ Latest MTA Funding Plan (NYT, News, NY1, Post, WNYC) City Planning Releases Comprehensive Study of NYC Bike Share Options (Gotham Gazette) Bloomberg: I’ll Help Pass an MTA Rescue, on the Down Low (Politicker) Illinois Legislators Tour Chicago’s Decrepit Transit Facilities (CTA Tattler) Raises for TWU Not Looking Very Likely This Year … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EDT on April 21, 2009
- More on Senate Dems’ Latest MTA Funding Plan (NYT, News, NY1, Post, WNYC)
- City Planning Releases Comprehensive Study of NYC Bike Share Options (Gotham Gazette)
- Bloomberg: I’ll Help Pass an MTA Rescue, on the Down Low (Politicker)
- Illinois Legislators Tour Chicago’s Decrepit Transit Facilities (CTA Tattler)
- Raises for TWU Not Looking Very Likely This Year (News)
- TSTC: NJ Road Widening Projects Violate Clean Air Act (MTR)
- Rolling Stop Bill Comes to a Halt in Oregon Statehouse (Hard Drive)
- Can State DOTs Implement Obama’s High-Speed Rail Plan? (Trains for America via Streetsblog.net)
- Assembly Considers Bill Requiring Drivers to Stop and Check What They Hit (Journal News)
- DOT Moves Commuter Bus Parking From South Street to West Street (Downtown Express)
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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