Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:09 AM EDT on August 19, 2010
- MTA Funding in Even More Peril as Suburbs Mobilize Against Payroll Tax (WSJ)
- Advocates for Disabled Sue MTA Over Transit Cuts’ Disparate Impact (Transpo Nation)
- Bike Bedlam 3: Tony Aiello‘s First NYC Bike Ride Yields First Almost-Fair Segment (CBS2)
- Another High-Profile PlaNYC Hire: Seattle Climate Chief Amanda Eichel (Daily Politics)
- Assembly Can Still, and Must, Pass Complete Streets Bill, Says AARP (Times-Union)
- Two-Way Path Through Unfinished Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens Next Week (Post)
- Brooklyn CB 6 Excited For New Pedestrian Countdown Signals on Flatbush (Post)
- First Staten Island Target of Leandra’s Law Was Drunk, 30 MPH Over Limit, And Without License (Post)
- NYPD’s Green Efforts: 30 New Hybrid Patrol Cars (News)
- Renegade Public Works Org Hires Jamaica Residents to Build Bus Stop Benches (Queens Chron)
- Are Unaccountable Economic Development Agencies Even Creating Enough Jobs? (WSJ)
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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