Today’s Headlines

9:08 AM EST on January 28, 2011

Port Auth. Chair: ARC Will Return, Since Transit Only Way to Move People Into NYC (Transpo Nation)
Bloomberg: "The Northeast Is Approaching a Transportation Crisis" (Transpo Nation)
Snowstorms Make Queens Drivers That Much More Possessive About On-Street Parking (News)
Snow Strands Passengers on Coney Island N Train (Post)
David Greenfield, Please Fingerwag and Tweet About This Plow-Blocking Mercedes Owner on PPW (FiPS)
Meanwhile, Disabled Cars Block Highway Ramps Across New Jersey (Post)
DiNapoli Report Finds MTA Bus Inspections Late and Incomplete (2nd Ave Sagas)
New PATH Station Brings Housing and Office Construction to Harrison (WSJ)
Malcolm Smith Excited About Prospect of Northeast Corridor HSR (CapTon)
The Post Rounds Up Some Anti-Bike Lane Letters to Keep Kvetch-Fest Alive
Jenny McCarthy and Oprah: Livable Streets Advocates

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

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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