Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill.

By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EST on November 18, 2009

DOT: East Side BRT “Might” Include Physically Separated Lanes (News)
Bloomberg, Cut This Cost: 2,400 City Employees Drive to Work in City-Owned Cars (News)
Assembly Passes Leandra’s Law, Including Ignition Lock Requirement for DWI Offenders (NYT)
Parking Ticket Disputes Will Never Go Away — “8:06 Is the New 8:01” (NYT)
New Bike Program Means More Freedom, Better Health for NYers Living With AIDS (Housing Works)
Check Out Some of the Top Entries From Last Night’s Biking Rules PSA Contest (City Room)
It’s Pedicab Week at the Post as Registration Deadline Nears
Investment Trends: Super-Rich Buying Up Rail, Roads, and Bridges (Globe and Mail, WSJ)
NYPD Escort for Amtrak Joe Crashes on the Way to Daily Show (NYT, Post)
Someone Stole No Impact Man’s Bike! …Now It’s Back!
Here’s How the Fare Hike Four Treat a Statewide Budget Crisis (Observer)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill.

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.

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