Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM EST on January 10, 2011

NYPD, DOT, Manhattan CB 2 Want Speed Cams; Some Cabbies Not Too Pleased (Post)
With No Mention of MTA in Cuomo's State of State, City Hall News Names Jay Walder Political Loser
Christie Draws Flak For Spending ARC Money and Borrowing to Build Roads (Transpo Nation)
Cap'n Transit Looks at Regional Traffic Fatalities, Finds "Upper Delaware Valley of Death"
MTA Data Network Upgrade Behind Schedule, Over Budget, and Tied to Corrupt Contractors (Post)
Pete Donohue: With Ceilings Crumbling, MTA Needs to Step Up Station Repairs (News)
Columbia Student Thinks He's Got the App to Track Subways (Post)
Robert Moses's Throgs Neck Bridge Turns 50 (News)
Businesses Sue MTA to Stop Tolls From Subsidizing Transit (Post)
Ben Kabak: Bayonne Bridge Overhaul Must Make Room For Transit

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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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