Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

DC Metro Crash Highlights Decrepit State of Big American Transit Systems (NYT) So Much For Getting Anything Done in Albany This Session (NYT) MTA Board OKs Sweeter Atlantic Yards Deal for Ratner (Bklyn Paper, AYR, News, WNYC, NY1) Timothy Egan: Traffic Enforcement Cams Make Cities “Impersonal” (NYT) Funds for Green Transportation in New York State … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:58 AM EDT on June 25, 2009

DC Metro Crash Highlights Decrepit State of Big American Transit Systems (NYT)
So Much For Getting Anything Done in Albany This Session (NYT)
MTA Board OKs Sweeter Atlantic Yards Deal for Ratner (Bklyn Paper, AYR, News, WNYC, NY1)
Timothy Egan: Traffic Enforcement Cams Make Cities “Impersonal” (NYT)
Funds for Green Transportation in New York State Take a Hit (MTR)
In LA, Police and Prosecutors Have Serious Anti-Cyclist Bias Too (Streetsblog LA)
There’s More: In Tucson, Cyclists Get Tickets When They’re Struck By Cars (TBL via Streetsblog.net)
What Happens When You Try to Reason With a Bike Lane Blocking FedEx Driver (Cyclosity)
Transit Union Vote Signals Trouble for Current Leadership (News)
Bus Drivers, Station Agents Catch Fare Hike Flak From Riders (AMNY)

Ben Fried

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.

Today's Headlines

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