Today’s Headlines
Who Will Pay for the Gulf Disaster? Not Consumers of Gasoline (WaPo) Two Decades After Valdez, Feds and Drillers Completely Unprepared for Next Big Spill (NYT) State Lawmakers Pass 11th Budget Extender (NYT) Phase One of Second Ave Subway on Schedule; Phase Two Funding Nowhere in Sight (Crain’s) SAS Construction Puts the Kibosh on Sidewalk … Continued
By
Brad Aaron
9:04 AM EDT on June 15, 2010
- Who Will Pay for the Gulf Disaster? Not Consumers of Gasoline (WaPo)
- Two Decades After Valdez, Feds and Drillers Completely Unprepared for Next Big Spill (NYT)
- State Lawmakers Pass 11th Budget Extender (NYT)
- Phase One of Second Ave Subway on Schedule; Phase Two Funding Nowhere in Sight (Crain’s)
- SAS Construction Puts the Kibosh on Sidewalk Cafe Business … (AMNY)
- … Though Peter Vallone Might Just as Well Blame Lack of On-Street Parking (Post)
- NYSDOT: We Don’t Really Want to Run the BQE Through Brooklyn Heights Brownstones (MTR)
- City Says It’s Working Out the Kinks in Improved Park Circle (Bklyn Paper)
- Queens Precincts Lead City in DWI Arrests (Post, NY1)
- Pay-by-Phone Parking Comes to DC (NPR); City-Wide Car-Share Debuts in Hoboken (MTR)
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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