Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:16 AM EDT on April 8, 2010
- CB 7 Signs Off on Flushing Commons Development With Space for 1,600 Cars (Crain’s)
- NY1 Polls Jamaica Pedestrians on Crossing With Caution at Sutphin Blvd and Archer Ave
- Hit-and-Run Victim Erinn Phelan Still Comatose, Moved to Boston Facility (News)
- New Jersey, One of America’s Worst Places to Walk, to Require Full Stop for Peds (Inquirer via HWD)
- Governor Christie Betrays Contempt for Transit Riders, Ignorance of Transpo Funding (MTR)
- House of Detention Buses Taking Over Block of Court Street (Bklyn Paper)
- MTA Hits: SI Bus Drivers Took a Snow Day (News); Old Station Cams Outperform New Ones (AMNY)
- Charity Bike Rides Popular Enough to Sue Each Other (NYT)
- Ice Disappearing From Montana’s Glacier National Park, May Be Gone by Decade’s End (AP)
- Grist’s David Roberts Explains How Street Connectivity Could Bring Community to His Nabe …
- … While Pod People Hope to Re-Brand That Whole “Community” Thing (Autopia)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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