Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill.

By Ben Fried

8:46 AM EST on January 5, 2010

Rumors Intensify That Quinn May Hand Transpo Committee to Jimmy Vacca (News)
Decking Over the BQE? City Has More Modest Plans to Green Highway Trench (Brooklyn Paper)
Albany Fails to Keep Non-Voting Rider Advocates on MTA Board (News)
Big Rig Driver Hits and Kills Man Outside Grand Central, Never Noticed the Victim (Post)
“Officer” Pedro Espada Caught Parking in Front of a Hydrant (BoogieDowner, Post)
State Sen. Toby Stavisky Just Doesn’t Believe MTA’s Dire Financial Situation (Queens Chron)
Ben Kabak Debunks the Revisionist Transit History of Rep. Aileen Gunther (2nd Ave Sagas)
More on Sunday’s Memorial Walk and Ride (NY1)
The Staggeringly Sad State of American High-Speed Rail (NYT)
Are Wal-Mart Parking Lots the Most Violent Places in America? (HuffPo)

More headlines over 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.

Today's Headlines

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