Today’s Headlines
LaHood Smacks Down Pro-Distracted Driving Lobbyists (Transpo Nation) Tom Angotti: NYC Needs Comprehensive Planning, Not Ad Hoc Side Deals (Gotham Gazette) Planner Alex Garvin Talks NYC Zoning Rewrite, Superblocks (Urban Omnibus) Yonah Freemark Questions City’s Commuter Van Program, Transit Privatization (TNAC) What “Regime Change” Looks Like in Albany: Senate Leader’s $50K Mega-SUV Now a Hybrid … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on July 8, 2010
- LaHood Smacks Down Pro-Distracted Driving Lobbyists (Transpo Nation)
- Tom Angotti: NYC Needs Comprehensive Planning, Not Ad Hoc Side Deals (Gotham Gazette)
- Planner Alex Garvin Talks NYC Zoning Rewrite, Superblocks (Urban Omnibus)
- Yonah Freemark Questions City’s Commuter Van Program, Transit Privatization (TNAC)
- What “Regime Change” Looks Like in Albany: Senate Leader’s $50K Mega-SUV Now a Hybrid (Post)
- ARC Tunnel Eminent Domain Plans Infuriate Midtown Businesses (DNAinfo)
- Connecticut Just Keeps Sprawling (Courant)
- WTC Rebuilding Moves Forward; Developer Selected for Tower (NYT)
- 9/11 Security Measures Continue to Sever Park Row (1010WINS)
- Would Speed Cameras Be More Popular If You Made Them More Fun? (Grist)
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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