Today’s Headlines

• Driving While Surfing: Touch Screens and Internet Apps Invade the Dashboard (NYT)
• 2nd Ave Sagas and On Transport Smack Down Peter Vallone’s Lazy MTA-Bashing
• Gay Activists Take Aim at Bridge Toll-Blocking, Same-Sex Marriage Foe Carl Kruger (Post)
• Albany Dysfunction Has Bond Raters Worried About MTA (Bloomberg)
• Texas Starts Eyeing a Mileage Tax (Houston Chron via Planetizen)
• Boris Johnson’s Transpo Policies Costing London Transit; Sadiq Khan Not Pleased (Ealing Gazette)
• Brooklyn CB7 Won’t Be Getting a Fresh Face to Replace Outgoing Chair Randy Peers (Bklyn Eagle)
• Traffic on Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge Flowing Fine After Dedicating a Lane to Bikes (Globe and Mail)
• Curious About Bike Commuting in the Cold? Mechanic Eric Schofield Has Some Tips (City Room)
• Webster’s 2009 Word of the Year: Distracted Driving (Active Transportation Alliance)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill.