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8:59 AM EDT on October 1, 2010

    • Parking Expert Rachel Weinberger: Car-Sharing Change May Not Cut Driving (Transpo Nation)
    • Reformer Larry Hanley Takes the Helm of Amalgamated Transit Union (Labor Notes)
    • Brooklyn's Next "Great Public Space" Reserves Right To Kick Out Groups of Four or More (Brooklyn Paper)
    • To Get Trucks Off Their Streets, Astoria Wants Them on the Grand Central Parkway (News)
    • Good Luck Getting Around Today: Rain Overwhelms Aging Infrastructure (City Room)
    • Internal Affairs Targets Ticket Writers in 12 Bronx Precincts (Post)
    • Gridlock Sam: Feds Need to OK L.A.'s 30/10 Transit Plan, Other Cities Need to Follow (PBS)
    • NJ Assembly Waters Down Anti-Sprawl Law (Star-Ledger)
    • Chris Christie Picks Former State AG to Run Port Authority Board (WSJ, Star-Ledger)
    • New Documentary Studies Rockland County's "Megamall" and Sprawl (LoHud)

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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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