Today’s Headlines

  • Ravitch Plan Comes Out Today; Paterson ‘Quite Pleased’ With It (NYT, News, Newsday, Post, NY1)
  • Believe It or Not, Motorists Don’t Like the Idea of New Tolls (News)
  • Thompson Makes His Pitch For Higher, Weight-Based Car Fees (News)
  • Obama Stimulus Package Starting to Take Shape (NYT)
  • UAW Offers Concessions to Keep Big Three Afloat (NYT)
  • Carmakers Promise Congress They’ll Boost Fuel Efficiency (Grist, City Fix)
  • Elizabeth Kolbert on Detroit’s Decades-Long Effort to Forestall Change (NYer)
  • Brooklyn CB7 Reacts to Prospect Park Road Diet Compromise (Bklyn Paper)
  • Teachers Caught Fabricating Numbers to Land Parking Permits (GothamSchools)
  • Americans Want More Transit-Oriented Places to Live (GGW via Streetsblog.net)
  • Anti-Transit Forces Are in Retreat (Overhead Wire)