Today’s Headlines

  • Times Gets Around to 34th Street Transitway, Spares Readers Obligatory Driver Rants
  • Veteran Street Vendor Sympathetic to Proposed Parks Crackdown (NYT)
  • Cuomo Subpoenas Senate Records; Espada Calls Him a Liar; Fed Charges Likely (NY1 1, 2, Post)
  • New Cutter Head Lowered Into Second Ave Subway Tunnel (2nd Ave Sagas)
  • TSTC Reports Tracks Progress of Nationwide Transportation Reform (MTR)
  • NYPD to Expand "Green" Fleet; Human-Powered Vehicles Not Included (City Room)
  • Three Lawns Open at Brooklyn Bridge Park (Bklyn Paper, NY1)
  • Queens Center Mall Accused of Diverting Drivers Into Garage, Whether Shopping or Not (News)
  • Oil Rig Explodes, Sinks in Gulf of Mexico; 11 Workers Missing; Extent of Spill Unknown (NYT)
  • Volcanic Interruption Prompts Momentary Rethinking of Dependence on Airliners (Room for Debate)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

  • The Times didn’t print the driver rants because Grynbaum wrote them right into the article:

    The result would be a street effectively split in two.

    Only if you’re driving. For those who are walking or taking the bus, and probably cyclists too – all together, the vast majority of street users- it’s one street.