Today’s Headlines

By Ben Fried
Aug 11, 2008

Streetsblog is running our weekend news wrap-up in two sections this morning. Links to coverage of Saturday’s inaugural Summer Streets event will be posted separately.

Friedman: How Energy Taxes Helped Denmark Kick Its Oil Habit
Contested Streets Now a National Trend (NYT)
NYT Assesses Red Hook Ikea
Bloomberg Weighs in on Bridge Tolls (News)
Gas Prices Dip Below $4/Gallon at Some New York Pumps (News)
State Senate Approves Gansevoort Waste Transfer Station (News)
NYT Reviews Tom Vanderbilt’s ‘Traffic’
NYC Joins 20 Other Cities in Measuring Carbon Footprints (Post)
Yglesias: No One Is Arguing That the U.S. Should Be Car-Free; Driving Should Just Be Rarer