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9:00 AM EDT on March 16, 2012

    • Thruway Director Says State Can't Afford TZB Transit, Yet Doesn't Know Cost of Bridge (LoHud)
    • Dilan to State: Add Transit to Tappan Zee Bridge, NY Works Fund (MTR)
    • Politicians Want to Reopen Shuttered Elmhurst LIRR Station, and MTA Is Listening (News)
    • Packed Midtown Workshop Generally Positive About Bike-Share (DNAinfo)
    • Ratner Exec Declares "Her Mission" Is to Reduce Barclays Center Parking (Post)
    • NY Republicans Lack Muscle to Restore Transit Tax Benefit in House (WSJ)
    • In Rego Park, DOT Will Add Parking to Reduce Crashes (DNAinfo)
    • Eight Seconds Added to Delancey Street Crossing Where Dashane Santana Killed (DNAinfo)
    • Nassau Street Reconstruction Will Include Traffic Calming Neckdowns (Brownstoner)
    • Senate Republicans Only Cut MTA Funding Because They Care (Capital)
    • Working Families Party Petitions For G Train Extension (Capital)
    • San Francisco's Experiment With Demand-Based Parking Is Working (NYT)

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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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