Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM EDT on October 29, 2010

Tri-State to Gov Candidates: Keep Jay Walder (City Room)
Walder, Gillibrand, and Stringer Call for ARC Money To Help MTA (News)
...While Tri-State Makes the Case for Using It to Improve Cross-Hudson Bus Service (MTR)
Judge OKs Lawsuit Against 4-Year-Old For Training Wheel-Aided Bike Bedlam (NYT)
After Bus Kills Child, Manhattan Beach Wants Traffic Lights, Speed Bumps, No More Bike Lane (News)
Cops Block First Ave. Bike Lane, Then Ticket Cyclists For Riding Outside Lane (Gothamist)
So Far, Only 147 Dooring Tickets Handed Out Statewide This Year (City Room)
Lautenberg Launches Investigation Into ARC Ethics, Protecting Federal Investments (Transpo Nation)
DMI and T.A. Pitch Their Five-Point Transit Plan in the Huffington Post
MTA's Bus Chief Steps Down (2nd Ave Sagas)
Maybe Cuomo's Corvette Collection Would Be More Charming If He Also Had a Plan For Transit (NYT)

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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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