Today’s Headlines — 10/27/08
October 27, 2008By Andrew Bielak
- The collapse of insurance company AIG reaps financial havoc on 31 transit agencies. (USA Today)
- After losing his vehicle in an accident, Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne explores the idea of car-sharing.
- The Baltimore Sun criticizes a plan to tighten Maryland’s state budget by cutting transit services.
- A slumping economy outweighs slumping gas prices and keeps drivers off the road in San Diego County. (San Diego Union Tribune)
- New York City experiments with a new system that shows riders exactly where their next train is. (New York Times)
- The Washington Post looks at Barack Obama’s role as a distinctly metropolitan presidential candidate.



