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9:04 AM EDT on June 17, 2010

  • BP Could Owe $280 Million. A Day. Just In Civil Charges. (NYT)
  • Michael Daly to Obama: To Hit BP Where It Hurts, Build More Subways (News)
  • Bus Cam Legislation Has Clear Path Forward in the Assembly (News)
  • Daily News: Did We Say Fare-Beating Was a Problem on Bx12? Our Bad. 
  • Cops Driving on Wrong Side of Road Hit Cyclist, Only in Trouble for Lack of Paperwork (News)
  • Road Rage Fight With Off-Duty MTA Cop Ends in Nine Gunshots (News)
  • Must Food Trucks Follow Traffic Laws to Keep Licenses? Council Discusses (WSJ, NYT)
  • Sen. Dan Squadron Blasts Road-Widening BQE Expansion Plan (Post)
  • Having Tapped Out MTA, Albany Turns to Environmental Fund for Raid (Gotham Gazette)
  • Reclaiming Our Streets From Cars: Now It's Science (Scientific American)
  • How Are You Celebrating Dump the Pump Day? (WaPo)
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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