Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:06 AM EST on February 16, 2011
- Bloomberg Will Sign Lappin Traffic Data Bill, NYPD Still Silent (News)
- Andrea Bernstein Offers Her Take on Why Quinn Prioritized Parking in State of the City (Transpo Nation)
- WPIX Reports: Senator Chuck Schumer‘s Family and Contributors Suing to Remove a Popular Bike Lane
- NBBL Claims to Speak for “Entire Community” — Doesn’t Seem Confident in Their Lawsuit (Post)
- In Year of Service Cuts and Fare Hikes, Subway Ridership Rises But Buses Fall (Post)
- City Plan for 9/11 Memorial Visitors: Ferries, PATH and Subway (DNAinfo)
- Interest Grows in Albany for Public-Private Deal on Tappan Zee (WSJ)
- In Fatal Lower East Side Crash, Tractor Trailer Hit Pedestrian, No Charges Brought (DNAinfo)
- Red Light Cameras “Vital,” Editorializes Staten Island Advance
- Pedestrian Plaza, Increased Density Seen as Path to Revitalized Myrtle Avenue (NYT)
- How a New Subway Station Gets Designed, Down to the Mechanical Ducts (Capital)
- High Earners in London Demand Bike Parking at Work Before Changing Jobs (Evening Standard)
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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