Today’s Headlines
From Transit Stops to Free Parking: NYPD Won’t Ticket Motorists for Parking in Old Bus Stops (WNYC) City Shuts Down Private Bus Operator Trying to Recreate Discontinued MTA Service (News) Crain’s “25 Big Ideas” for New York Include Light Rail, BRT, End to Cheap On-Street Parking Bronx Community Boards Split Over City’s Car-Sharing Initiative (YourNabe) … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
9:06 AM EDT on July 7, 2010
- From Transit Stops to Free Parking: NYPD Won’t Ticket Motorists for Parking in Old Bus Stops (WNYC)
- City Shuts Down Private Bus Operator Trying to Recreate Discontinued MTA Service (News)
- Crain’s “25 Big Ideas” for New York Include Light Rail, BRT, End to Cheap On-Street Parking
- Bronx Community Boards Split Over City’s Car-Sharing Initiative (YourNabe)
- Did MTA Undersell Atlantic Yards Naming Rights? (Metro)
- Newsday: Long Island Needs Transit-Oriented Development at Huntington Station
- No Plea Bargain in Leandra DWI Case (News)
- July 4 DWI Victim’s Daughter Speaks Out (News)
- Pedicab Drivers “Not All a Bunch of Lawless Renegades,” Post Admits
- Cleveland’s Healthline BRT Failing to Deliver Promised Speeds (Plain Dealer)
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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