Today’s Headlines
- Sadik-Khan Announces Scaled-Back Plan for 34th Street (TransNat, DNA, SAS, NY1, News)
- Yankee Stadium Parking Garages Officially a Wasteful Mess (Crain's)
- Driver in Tour Bus Crash Had Prior License Suspensions (Post); Second Crash in Jersey Kills 2 (News)
- Someone Alert Bike Lane Foe Chuck Schumer to the 169 Tragedies He Missed Last Year (Crain's, NYT)
- Feds Say Modern Bus Design Should Reflect Today's Corpulent American (Gothamist)
- Back in Albany for Now, Disgraced Carl Kruger Embraced by Amigo Diaz, Sr. (NYT)
- Head of City Workers Union Considers Mayoral Run for "Poor and Middle Class" (News)
- Nassau Transit Riders Gird for Fight to Save Long Island Bus (MTR)
- Quake Shuts Japanese Auto Plants; Residents Turn to Bikes in Transit-Hobbled Tokyo (Detroit FP, Grist)
- Cars Outnumber People in Historic Massachusetts; What Would Emerson and Thoreau Say? (Planetizen)
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