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MTA Fare Hike Plans Expand: 1-Day, 14-Day Passes To End, Bridge and Tunnel Tolls Up (Post) Suburban Park-and-Ride Prices Rise, Too (SAS) Ben Kabak Grabs Subway Ridership and Reliability Graphs Showing Pre-Service Cut Trends In Wake of Service Cuts, Commuter Vans Come Even to the Upper East Side (Metro) New Willis Ave. Bridge, Now With … Continued

By Noah Kazis

9:06 AM EDT on July 27, 2010

MTA Fare Hike Plans Expand: 1-Day, 14-Day Passes To End, Bridge and Tunnel Tolls Up (Post)
Suburban Park-and-Ride Prices Rise, Too (SAS)
Ben Kabak Grabs Subway Ridership and Reliability Graphs Showing Pre-Service Cut Trends
In Wake of Service Cuts, Commuter Vans Come Even to the Upper East Side (Metro)
New Willis Ave. Bridge, Now With Bike Lanes, Sails Into Place (Post)
Has NYPD Figured Out a Foolproof Way to End Traffic Ticket Favoritism? (Post)
Don’t Trust Commuter Rail’s Reliability Stats, Says NYT
LIRR Struggles With New Generation of Cashless Passengers (WSJ)
Schneiderman No-Towing Loophole Closed, and Fast (Daily Politics)
Anti-Espada Sentiment Gels Around Gus Rivera (Gotham Gazette)

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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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