Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:06 AM EDT on July 17, 2009
- U.S. House Won’t Let Car Companies Trim Bloated, Wasteful Dealerships (NYT)
- State Senate Passes Albany’s Watered Down Txting-While-Driving Bill (Post)
- Bronx CB7 Approves 400-Parking Spot Kingsbridge Armory Retail Project (News, Norwood News)
- Bronx Prosecutors Charge Killer Hit-and-Run Driver With Manslaughter (News)
- First Bogota’s BRT, Now Seoul’s Freeway Teardown: NYT Reports on a Global Livable Streets Success
- Clyde Haberman: Jay Walder Has to Be Confirmed By Senate Clowns? Oy Vey! (NYT)
- 2nd Ave Sagas on the Tall Tasks That Await Walder
- Indisputable Proof That the Sheridan Expressway Is Totally Useless (MTR)
- Correction: Whole Foods Still Plans to Build a Huge Parking Lot on Third Ave (Brooklyn Paper)
- Times Square Gets a Little More Car-Free (City Room)
- GGW Is Rallying the Troops Against a $4B Freeway Boondoggle Outside DC (via Streetsblog.net)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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