Today’s Headlines, 8/9/06


For cost and congestion-conscious commuters light-rail is an option in Denver. Why not  in NYC as well?

Photo: Kevin Moloney for the New York Times.

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The Weekly Carnage

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The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Fatal Crashes (3 Killed This Week, 30 This Year, 6 Drivers Charged*) Sung Won Cho, 40, Killed by Driver in Church Parking […]

Today’s Headlines

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Trunk or Treat: Halloween Moves to the Parking Lot (NYT) The Next Governor’s Transit Challenges (AMNY) Down Bound Train (NYT) Using American Tragedies to Sell Trucks (NYT) Paving a Parking Lot To Put Up a Paradise (Queens Ledger) Climate Change May Cost World $9.6 Trillion (Bloomberg) SUVs Escape Guzzler Tax (Wired) Insulating a Melting Glacier […]

In Memoriam

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Each year, scores of pedestrians and cyclists die on New York City streets, while thousands are injured. Though the total number of road fatalities is trending down, those who get around the city on foot and by bike have seen their casualty rate rise. Incidents of vehicle-inflicted violence are so frequent that many go unreported […]

The Weekly Carnage

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Designated Driver Hits Utility Pole, Dies (Newsday) Driver, 25, Hears DWI Charges in Triple-Fatal Crash (Star-Ledger) Family Raises $200K to Bails Out Driver After Deadly Accident (Star-Ledger) Van Accident Kills Parents, but Police Save Their Children (NYT) Pedestrian Killed by Minivan Driver in Boerum Hill (Gothamist) Pedestrian Struck and Killed in Old Bridge, N.J. (Star-Ledger) Car Spins […]

The Weekly Carnage

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Fatal Crashes (19 Dead This Week; 5 Dead This Year) New Jersey: 9 Die Across State in a Long Weekend of Crashes (Star-Ledger) Related: NYC Officer, 2 Daughters Killed as SUV Veers Off Highway (Daily News) Related: SUV Rams Sedan, Killing 2 in North Bergen (NYT) Bronx: Man Drives SUV Into Crowd, Kills Boxer, Flees (NYT) Related: Victim Savored […]

The Weekly Carnage

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The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle mayhem across the five boroughs and beyond. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. “The Great” Joe Rollino, killed by driver on January 11 in Brooklyn Fatal Crashes (7 Killed This Week, 14 This Year, 4 […]