Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:19 AM EDT on August 16, 2010
- With Growing Sales, Profits, and Jobs, Detroit Lives (NYT)
- New Yorkers’ Top Complaints: Subway Door Blockers, Slow Walkers, Distracted Cabbies (Post)
- NYT: 34th Street Busway Plan Clears Low “Better Than Robert Moses” Bar
- News: Save the Trees, “Majestic Delight,” on Pelham Parkway
- Metro-North Considers Double-Decker Cars to Boost Capacity (NYT)
- MTA Tests Wheelchair-Accessible SUV as Access-A-Ride Replacement (Crain’s)
- Sam “Ike” Schwartz Calls for Fix-It-First, Gas Tax Hike, High-Speed Rail (PBS)
- You Can Already Chat On Your Cell at These Subway Stations (AMNY)
- ’90s Flashback Video: MTA Advertises MetroCard Gold, Free Transfers (Second Ave Sagas)
- Crash at Mojave Desert Truck Race Kills Eight Spectators (CNN)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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