Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:06 AM EDT on October 6, 2010
- ARC’s Official Death Expected Tomorrow or Friday (Post)
- Frank Lautenberg Still Trying to Save ARC, Urges Port Authority to Step Up (Transpo Nation)
- After Decades of Sprawl, No More Room for NJ To Grow Horizontally (NYT)
- Carl Paladino Wants to “Take Apart The MTA Piece By Piece,” Fire Jay Walder (Crain’s)
- Flatbush Avenue Slated for Ped Plaza Safety Treatment From Atlantic to GAP (Brooklyn Paper)
- Federal State-Of-Good-Repair Grants Help Region’s Transit Systems Get By a Tiny Bit More (MTR)
- NYPD Transit Cops Can Now Hit 25 mph in Subway Stations. Feel Safer? (News)
- NYPD Tells Tow Trucks to Focus on No Standing Zones, Not Unregistered Cars, Says Union (News)
- Excessive Safety Bonuses for Contractors Cost MTA $722K (Post)
- Sheepshead Bay Learns Putting Up a Sign Won’t Fix Livery Cab Double-Parking (YourNabe)
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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