Today’s Headlines
Senate Fails to Move Climate/Energy Bill; From the Ashes, a Carbon Tax? (NYT, Carbon Tax Center) Fare Hike Vote Coming Next Week; If Only MTA Board Could Toll East River Bridges (NY1) TSTC to State DOT: Stop Ignoring Full Benefits of Sheridan Teardown (MTR) CNU Study Shows How Restoring the Street Grid Beats Keeping NOLA’s … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EDT on July 23, 2010
- Senate Fails to Move Climate/Energy Bill; From the Ashes, a Carbon Tax? (NYT, Carbon Tax Center)
- Fare Hike Vote Coming Next Week; If Only MTA Board Could Toll East River Bridges (NY1)
- TSTC to State DOT: Stop Ignoring Full Benefits of Sheridan Teardown (MTR)
- CNU Study Shows How Restoring the Street Grid Beats Keeping NOLA’s Claiborne Expressway
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills 4-Year-Old Girl in Newark (WCBS)
- First Phase of Moynihan Station Construction Will Start in October (Post)
- West Street So Dangerous Grown-Ups Need Help Crossing (DNAInfo)
- Dan Halloran Has Got an Excellent Foil for His Push to Make Double-Parking Legal (Queens Chron)
- Get a Bird’s Eye View of Times Square’s Temporary New Surface (Gothamist)
- Real-Time Traffic Info Tops DOT’s Wishlist for Transpo Apps (Civic Hacker)
- A Guide to Circum-Bicycling Manhattan (NYC Transported)
- Salsa Lessons in the Street: Excellent Use of Reclaimed Meat Market Plaza (NYT)
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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