Today’s Headlines
More About Yesterday’s East Side SBS Announcement (NY1, SAS) Shelly Silver Has to Pass Bus Cam Bill to Come Through for NYers (MTR) Post Predictably Skeptical of Fare Pre-Payment Will Incomplete East Side Bikeways Forestall NYC Bike-Share? (Transpo Nation) BP Oil Spill Rate Still an Unsolved Mystery (NYT) Traffic Fatalities in India Skyrocketing: 118,000 People … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on June 8, 2010
- More About Yesterday’s East Side SBS Announcement (NY1, SAS)
- Shelly Silver Has to Pass Bus Cam Bill to Come Through for NYers (MTR)
- Post Predictably Skeptical of Fare Pre-Payment
- Will Incomplete East Side Bikeways Forestall NYC Bike-Share? (Transpo Nation)
- BP Oil Spill Rate Still an Unsolved Mystery (NYT)
- Traffic Fatalities in India Skyrocketing: 118,000 People Killed in 2008 Alone (NYT 1, 2)
- School Bus Driver Crushes Woman’s Leg in Gravesend (Post)
- Quickie Q&A With TLC Chief Yassky (AMNY)
- MBTA Releases Real-Time Data for 12 More Bus Routes (Transit Wire)
- NBA Star Caron Butler, James Oberstar, Prince of Denmark Bike By White House (AP)
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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