Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:03 AM EST on January 31, 2011
- Sources: Cuomo Will Raid Transit Funding, Yet Somehow Avoid Fare Hikes and Service Cuts (News)
- The MTA’s 2011 Agenda: Real-Time Bus Info for Staten Island, Progress on Next-Gen Fares (Ben Kabak)
- Skelos: Transpo Means Jobs; MTA and Roads Need “Balanced Multi-Year Capital Plan” (Transpo Nation)
- Late For Meeting, Skelos Jokes That Congestion Pricing Would Have Helped (Observer)
- City Council’s Non-Stop Snow Agenda Finally Turns to Bus Shelters (News)
- Drunk Driver Hits Delivery Cyclist, Flees Scene As Victim Pinned Beneath Second Car (News, Post 1, 2)
- Nick Kristof Seems to Think America’s Traffic Death Epidemic Has Already Been Cured (NYT)
- Ordinary Bikeway Story Turns Hellish in Hands of Post Headline Writers
- Taxi Driver Hits and Injures 85-Year-Old Woman in Chinatown (DNAinfo)
- Cuomo Likes His Muscle Cars and RV, Hasn’t Taken The Subway Since Last Year (News)
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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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