Today’s Headlines
Times, News Discuss New Pedestrian Safety Study, Focus on Deadlier Male Drivers Ped Safety Is Nice, But Won’t Someone Please Think of the Drivers? (CBS2, Of Course) Bike Bedlam! CBS2 Files Impeccably Accurate Report on Creeping Cyclist Menace Mysterious Ghost Stroller Appears in Park Slope Without Any Link to Traffic Death (NYT) Parks Department Seizes Bikes … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
9:13 AM EDT on August 17, 2010
- Times, News Discuss New Pedestrian Safety Study, Focus on Deadlier Male Drivers
- Ped Safety Is Nice, But Won’t Someone Please Think of the Drivers? (CBS2, Of Course)
- Bike Bedlam! CBS2 Files Impeccably Accurate Report on Creeping Cyclist Menace
- Mysterious Ghost Stroller Appears in Park Slope Without Any Link to Traffic Death (NYT)
- Parks Department Seizes Bikes Parked on Hudson Greenway (Gothamist)
- TLC Cracks Down On 600 Overcharging Taxi Drivers (News)
- Victory in Fight to Keep Henry Street Bike Lane Clear During Church Hours (Ink Lake)
- Economist Tyler Cowen Takes On Free Parking (NYT)
- With Leandra’s Law Now in Effect, Are Interlock Devices the Most Important Provision? (Transpo Nation)
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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