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9:04 AM EDT on August 20, 2010

    • Bloomberg Mulling Bike-Share For NYC, Reports CBS2's Tony Aiello
    • Despite Government Protestations, Oil Damage in Gulf Not Disappearing (NYT) 
    • $148M Kew Gardens Interchange Project Buys More Lanes for Van Wyck (News)
    • Chicago Bike-Sharing Pilot Deemed Success After Two and a Half Weeks (Sun-Times) 
    • Post's Andrea Peyser Piles On the Bike Bedlam Fear-Mongering
    • City Bus Hits, Kills 47-Year-Old in Locust Manor, Queens (Post)
    • DOT Ped Safety Plan Spurs Calls For San Francisco to Write Its Own (Streetsblog SF)
    • What's The Connection Between Cuomo Donors and the Thruway Authority? (Transpo Nation) 
    • As Private Buses Replace MTA Service, Legal and Safety Questions Linger (WNYC) 
    • Scarce Street Space Drives Food Vendor Conflict (WSJ)
    • Bike Snob Makes the Case for Graveled Bike Lanes

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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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