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Today’s Headlines

9:12 AM EDT on August 12, 2010

  • Goldsmith Loves Congestion Pricing, BRT, But Did He Roll Back E. Side Bike Lanes? (Transpo Nation)
  • Term Limits Only Big Ticket Charter Revision on Ballot (NYT, WSJ)
  • As Family Mourns Bus Stop Crash Victim, Summons Given for Illegal U-Turn (News, Post)
  • Fashionistas Bring Double-Parking, Engine-Idling Glamour to City Hall (Daily Politics)
  • Daily News Editorials: Let the TWU Operate One Van Line...
  • ...And Bring on (High-Tech, Private-Sector) Bike-Sharing
  • DOT to Unveil New "Pop Up Cafes" for Ped Plazas (Transpo Nation)
  • Major Rush Hour Delays Plague NJ Transit Once a Week in July (WSJ) 
  • SF Bridge Pricing Cuts Rush Hour Delays by Half (Transpo Nation)
  • The Onion: "Millions of Barrels of Oil Safely Reach Port in Major Environmental Catastrophe" 

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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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