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9:05 AM EDT on July 6, 2010

    • US Spends Billions on Oil Subsidies; Americans Paying Lowest Gas Taxes in History (NYT, USA Today)
    • Daily News Sees Private Vans as Transit System of the Future
    • Nice New York Mag Feature on "The Glaring Intelligence" of BRT
    • Deadly Drunk Driving Mars July 4 Weekend (Post)
    • With Criminal Charges Looming, Dems Looking to Dump Espada (Post 1, 2) 
    • Port Authority Uses Toll Increase to Fund PATH Station Improvements (1010WINS)
    • José Peralta Jockeys for Spot as Top MTA Basher (SAS) 
    • Assaults, Spitting Attacks on Transit Workers Continue (AMNY)
    • Talk About Fare-Beating: Livery Cars Won't Pay Sales Tax, So Albany Just Exempts Them (Post)
    • Region's Power Brokers Form Coalition to Decongest Airports (Crain's)
    • Auto-Dependency's Logical Extreme: Car For Blind Drivers Set for 2011 Release (Transpo Nation) 
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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