The New York Times offers this story out of Detroit, where people are praying for a bailout. The photo of three hybrid SUVs on a church altar is something you don’t see every day.

I’ve made a request to become Facebook friends with Minneapolis SnowEmergency — finally, a status update that’s actually useful. There’s a similar MySpace page, according to the news release I just received. I’ll link to the release once it’s on the city’s website.

UPDATE: I’ve been accepted as a friend of SnowEmergency — I was friend No. 3, in fact.

A suspect in a New York City murder case is glad he chose mass transit. Story is here.

Katherine Kersten discusses the automobile’s role in the economic crisis, while multimedia maven James Lileks shares his thoughts on the Southwest light-rail line.

A short item I put together for this morning’s paper about the three possible Southwest alignments has generated nearly 60 comments. There’s also an online poll.

Roadguy has been spending entirely too much time reading about politics lately, but every now and then, something transportation-y comes up. Like this: Andrew Sullivan, who describes his blog as the “highest ranked one-person mainly political blog in the world,” offers some mild criticism of taking photos while driving, then posts a second photo taken by someone who was driving. Sometimes the view from the windshield is too eye-catching to resist.

Sullivan also mentions that he doesn’t drive. Maybe Roadguy should try that — I’d certainly get more blogging done if I never left the house.