Today’s Headlines
- Nine Dead in DC Metro Crash (NYT, News)
- MTA Gives Ratner a Bunch of Extra Loot in Atlantic Yards Deal (News, Post, City Room)
- Judge: NYC Can't Promote Hybrid Taxis; That's the Feds' Job (News)
- State DOT Wants to Add Shoulders, Faster Ramps to Reconstructed BQE (Bklyn Paper, NY1)
- TSTC Has Some Advice for Acting NYSDOT Commish Stanley Gee (MTR)
- Scenes From DOT's Last BRT Workshop (City Room)
- WNYC Checks In on Progress of 7 Line Extension
- Chuck Schumer: To Get to Know New York, You've Got to Ride a Bike (HuffPo)
- Heartbreaking Pictures of Long Gone American Train Stations (Infrastructurist)
- Savannah Cops: Ped Injury Justifies Jaywalking Crackdown (Sustain Savannah via Streetsblog.net)
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