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By Noah Kazis

9:00 AM EST on November 8, 2010

Cuomo Writes LaHood to Ask for Midwest’s HSR Funds (News, Capital Tonight)
The News Finds Smoking-Gun Memos Showing Brooklyn Precinct’s Traffic Enforcement Quotas
Police Car, With Sirens On, Hits Swedish Tourist in West Village (News)
Murray Hill Opponents Organize Against 34th Street Transitway Plans (DNAinfo)
Bloomberg Ends No-Tow Perk For Elected Officials (News)
Nassau County Receives Three Bids to Privately Run LI Bus, But Can It Work Without Subsidies? (MTR)
FedEx Driver Successfully Pleads for Lenience From Traffic Agents (City Room)
Nadler Talks Transportation Bill, Gas Tax, ARC Tunnel With Andrea Bernstein (WNYC)
NYSDOT Closes Thruway Rest Stops to Save Money (Ithaca Journal)
Brooklyn Paper Letter-Writers Nail It On PPW Bike Lane
NYPD Bike Crackdown Extends to Unicycles, Apparently (Gothamist)

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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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