Today’s Headlines
NYT: It’s Up to Bloomberg to Swing Senate GOP Support for Shelly’s Transit Rescue Package State Senate Will Vote on Its MTA Plan Next Week (Post, Wonkster, Daily Politics) Shelly Won’t Stand in the Way of Senate’s Ill-Conceived Package (Politicker) Subway Ridership, Fare Revenue Decline as Unemployment Rises (Post) Sander Orders Hiring Freeze at MTA … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:18 AM EDT on April 23, 2009
- NYT: It’s Up to Bloomberg to Swing Senate GOP Support for Shelly’s Transit Rescue Package
- State Senate Will Vote on Its MTA Plan Next Week (Post, Wonkster, Daily Politics)
- Shelly Won’t Stand in the Way of Senate’s Ill-Conceived Package (Politicker)
- Subway Ridership, Fare Revenue Decline as Unemployment Rises (Post)
- Sander Orders Hiring Freeze at MTA (NY1, Post)
- Working Families Party Rallies for a Transit Rescue, But Which One Isn’t Clear (WNYC)
- 88th Precinct: We Park on the Sidewalk Because We’ve Got No Choice (The Local)
- Stalled Station Rehabs Back on Track With Stim Cash (Bklyn Paper)
- Montreal Set to Launch North America’s Biggest Bike-Share (Transport Politic via Streetsblog.net)
- Infrastructurist: What We Really Should Be Thinking About on Earth Day (Hint: It’s Not Light Bulbs)
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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