Today’s Headlines
- Citizens Budget Commission's MTA Plan: Higher Fares, Tolls and Gas Taxes, and Road Pricing (CapNY)
- Related: Advance Hits the Thesaurus for "Outrage" Synonyms
- At Stop-Frisk Hearing, Bloomberg Attorney Says City Council Has No Authority Over NYPD (NYT, DNA)
- CB 2 Member Dismisses Residents' Fears of Speeding Traffic, Trucks on Skillman Avenue (Q Gazette)
- Queens' 104th Precinct Reinstitutes Community Council After Its Director Was Arrested (QChron)
- Prosecutors: Ex-NYPD Pedestrian Killer Kevin Spellman Had History of Driving Drunk (R'dale Press)
- EPL: Congestion Pricing Critic Jeffrey Dinowitz Is NYC's Top Assembly Environmentalist (R'dale Press)
- Cap'n Transit Explains the Limits of Mondermanism
- The Nostalgia Train Was On Duty in the South Bronx Yesterday ... (TransNat, SAS)
- ... And Nine Percent of the Capital Bikeshare Fleet Was Docked at Nationals Stadium (TransNat)
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