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Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM EDT on August 25, 2010

  • LIRR Running at Two-Thirds Capacity, Possibly for Days to Come (Post) 
  • While NJ Transit and Amtrak Were Delayed for Hours Yesterday (City Room)
  • ...And Daily News Points the Finger Right at Underfunding of Transit
  • Challenger Doug Biviano Blasts Assm. Joan Millman Over Transit Cuts (Bklyn Paper) 
  • MTR Wraps Up the Year in Albany
  • Ben Kabak: Don't Worry About $130 MetroCards
  • Brooklynites Want 2.5 Mile Tunnel to Replace BQE Cantilever (Bklyn Paper)  
  • Chinatown Coalition Releases Plan to Halt High-Rise and Luxury Development (WSJ)
  • Bloomberg Endorses Penn Station Skyscraper, Calls It "Easy For People to Get to" (News) 
  • Beijing's 10-Day Mega Traffic Jam Is Back to Being Typical Beijing Congestion (Wheels, MSNBC)
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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