Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EST on March 7, 2012
- MTA: Fare Hikes Will Barely Cover Rising Pension+Health Care Costs (WSJ, CapNY)
- …And Don’t Forget the Debt Bomb (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Vaccaro Challenges NYPD “Riding Outside a Bike Lane” Ticket in Supreme Court (Gothamist)
- Can Special Taxes on Development Make Up for Our Pathetically Low Gas Tax? (C&S)
- Living in Manhattan Starts to Look More Affordable When You Factor in Transpo Costs (MTR)
- Copenhagen’s New Suburb: Transit-Adjacent Starchitecture (NYT)
- People You Share the Road With: Man Smashes Windshield With Bat on BQE (Bklyn Paper)
- Someone Figured Out How to Turn a Parked Car Into a Public Attraction (Here’s Park Slope)
- Stuff You Don’t See on American TV: Dad Tells Anti-Traffic-Calming NIMBY to Get Lost (Bklyn Spoke)
- Best Smackdown of Universal’s Desecration of the Lorax (BoingBoing)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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