Today’s Headlines
Weinshall Watch! Iris Strongly Opposes PPW Traffic-Calming Bike Lane (News) Bill Clinton’s Down With BRT and ITDP (Transpo Nation) Relentless Road Pricing Foe Jeff Dinowitz Has No Shame (News) Brooklyn Paper Opinion Faceoff Pits Russianoff Against Walder MTA Lays Off 120 More Subway Workers (News) Nighttime Truck Delivery Experiment Pays Off (Crains) Heard This One … Continued
By
Ben Fried
7:54 AM EDT on July 2, 2010
- Weinshall Watch! Iris Strongly Opposes PPW Traffic-Calming Bike Lane (News)
- Bill Clinton’s Down With BRT and ITDP (Transpo Nation)
- Relentless Road Pricing Foe Jeff Dinowitz Has No Shame (News)
- Brooklyn Paper Opinion Faceoff Pits Russianoff Against Walder
- MTA Lays Off 120 More Subway Workers (News)
- Nighttime Truck Delivery Experiment Pays Off (Crains)
- Heard This One Before? Comptroller Says MTA Should Squeeze More $ From Real Estate (SAS)
- Downtown Flushing Traffic Tinkering Takes Effect This Month (Queens Chron)
- Predicting Traffic Caused By Development: Not Just a Pseudoscience Anymore (Switchboard)
- TA Cribs (Observer)
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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