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9:06 AM EDT on July 29, 2010

  • MTA Unveils Fare Hike Details (NYT, News)
  • It's Not Just Fares: Dozens of Small Cuts Will Hurt Ride Quality (WSJ)
  • And 202 Station Agent Layoffs Formally Approved (AMNY)
  • News: Don't Blame MTA; Pin the Hike on Paterson, Silver, Sampson, and Skelos
  • Will Environmentalists Regroup Around a Carbon Fee Instead of a Carbon Cap? (The Nation)
  • Deal for Even Cheaper Parking Wins Flushing Commons Council Support (News)  
  • Amanda Burden Sees Street Life as Her Legacy (Urban Omnibus)
  • Slideshow: Times Square Street Mural One Week From Completion (WNYC) 
  • Child's Ghost Bike Appears on UWS, But Is It Real? (West Side Spirit)
  • Portland Cyclist Calls NYC Traffic "Terror Mixed With Aggression," Praises Bike Lanes (Oregon Live)
  • DOT Surveyors Witness Three-Car Crash at Deathtrap Intersection of Utica and Avenue D (YourNabe) 

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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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