Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on September 8, 2010
- Congressional Leaders Call Obama Infrastructure Plan Surprise, Unclear on Details (Transpo Nation)
- GOP Opposition Could Doom Obama Infrastructure Plan From Start (WNYC)
- Padernacht Throws Support to Rivera, Unifying Challenge to Espada (NYT)
- The Circus Is in Town: MTA Fare Hike Hearings Start Monday (MTR)
- Poll: NYC Cabbies Most Reckless in Nation (News)
- What a Fully-Funded Regional Transportation System Would Look Like (News)
- Access-A-Ride Driver Runs Over Roosevelt Island Man in Wheelchair (Gothamist)
- Stadium Constructions Remain Rip-Off Generations Later (NYT)
- DOT’s “You The Man” App Fights Drunk Driving With Humor (News)
- “No Cell, No Song/Low Talk/In Peace We Travel/Arrive Calm” – Poetry of NJTransit’s Quiet Cars (NYT)
- West Vancouver Introduces Creepiest Traffic Calming Device (Discovery Magazine)
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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