Today’s Headlines

  • Obama Infrastructure Stimulus Plan: Ambitious, Still Vague (Grist, NYT)
  • Bill Thompson: Raising Car Registration Fees Could Net $1B/Year for MTA (NYT, News, Post)
  • Driver Kills Pedestrian Under FDR Drive in Harlem, Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter (News)
  • Reduced Transit Service Means Longer Trips for 1.3M Straphangers (News)
  • Bus Riders Fear Getting Stranded by MTA Cuts (NYT)
  • Kerry, Specter Introduce Bill to Fund High-Speed Rail (Boston Globe)
  • WaPo: Raise the Gas Tax
  • Is the Moment Ripe for a National Carbon Tax? (Grist)
  • Former Michigan Sen. Spencer Abraham: Save Detroit (NYT)
  • Post Gives DOT Brass the Lee Sander Treatment