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9:00 AM EDT on April 1, 2011

    • MTA Fails in Effort to Overturn Arbitration, Block Raise for Workers (News)
    • Silence on Prospect Park West Helps Make Schumer One of Week's Biggest Losers (City Hall News)
    • No Money For Tunneling BQE, Say State, Fed Officials (Bklyn Paper)
    • Skelos: MTA Payroll Tax Repeal May Be On Hold Until Next Year (Newsday)
    • Everyone Gets That Garages Worsen Traffic And Eat Up Space -- When They House Buses (Crain's)
    • MTA to Introduce Video Ads in Cars, 3D Ads in Tunnels (Post)
    • Bay Ridge Businesses Persuade DOT to Add Meters on Third Avenue (Bklyn Paper)
    • NYC BigApps Competition Winner Offers Transit Data to Commuters (WSJ)
    • Ped Bedlam! New Yorkers' Peppy Step Exacerbates Epidemic of Ped-Ped Crashes (Transpo Nation)

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Noah Kazis
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox. Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

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