Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM EDT on October 7, 2010

MTA Board to Vote On Fare Hike Today (Post)
...And E-Z-Pass Users Likely to Evade a Toll-Hike (NYT)
ARC Still Hanging By A Thread as LaHood Tries to Meet With Christie (NYT)
Ah, Those Were the Days: Transpo Nation Has Tape From ARC's Groundbreaking
NYU Medical Center Teams Up With the Post to Blame Cyclists for Getting Injured By Cars
Straphangers: 7 Train Takes Home Gold For Second Year Running, C Is City's Worst Ride (Post, WSJ)
Months After 12-Year-Old Freddie Endres Killed on Bike, Maspeth Still Demanding Safety (QChron)
Stubborn Building Managers Obstructing Bikes in Buildings Law for Some Commuters (AMNY)
MTA Wants To Store Energy Created By Braking Subway Cars (Post)
Staten Island to Ray LaHood: We Want a Megaproject, Too (NY1)
Albany (the City) Might Find Out Just How Much a Curbside Parking Spot Is Worth (Times-Union)

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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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