Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:01 AM EST on December 10, 2009
- Cowardly Senate Dems Stick to Script, Bash MTA for “Scaring People” About Service Cuts (AMNY)
- Carl Kruger on Transit Funding Debacle: MTA’s Fault (SAS, Politicker)
- Michael Daly on Bedford Bike Lane Removal: Shameful Political Deal Puts Lives at Risk (News)
- City Hall Doesn’t Deny That Bike Lane Erasure Was All About Votes (WNYC)
- Brooklyn Climate Activists to Confront Bloomberg in Copenhagen About Bike Lane Hypocrisy (Post)
- There’s Nothing Kosher About Making Bedford Avenue More Dangerous (Slow Bike Miami)
- Brian Lehrer Talks Stimulus, Infrastructure and Jobs (WNYC)
- NJ Transit Approves First Contract for ARC Tunnel (City Room)
- Mud on the Tracks: Leaf Residue Slows Trains; Riders Don’t Appreciate the Info (NYT)
- NYC Transit Working Out Some Kinks With One of Its Hybrid Bus Suppliers (AMNY)
- Live Near a Highway? You Could Be at Higher Risk of Developing Cancer (IV Daily Bulletin)
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Streetsblog is going to be on a light publishing schedule the next two days, doing our best to juggle meetings and blogging. We’ll have some posts for you, but they’ll probably be the short kind.
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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