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9:06 AM EST on January 25, 2011

    • Next Fare Hike Could Be 4.5 Times Bigger, Thanks to MTA's Looming Debt Bomb (Reuters)
    • Unlicensed Dump Truck Driver Killed Laurence Renard as She Crossed First Ave. (News, Post)
    • Drunk Dump Truck Driver Hit 'Nick' Sundarawadu as He Refueled on Side of Road (News, Advance)
    • Carl Kruger Keeps Pushing to Ban Pedestrians From Using Headphones, Cell Phones (AP)
    • Zoning Change Will Invigorate Water Street Arcades With Public Seating, Pedestrian Life (Crain's)
    • Bloomberg Draws Boos in Rockaways at Mention of New Bike Lanes (News)
    • Fragile Budgets, Cost-Cutting Prowess Kept Walder and Ward Their Jobs (News, City Room)
    • Diana Reyna-Sponsored Designers Imagine Park Capping BQE in Williamsburg (Architect's Newspaper)
    • Cap'n Transit Explains: Change The Loading Guidelines, Get Service Cuts
    • Truckers Commandeer Bay Ridge Public Space For Private Parking (News)
    • Why Is Half of the PPW Bike Lane Still Not Plowed? (Naparstek)

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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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