Today’s Headlines
Limited-Scale Parking Meter Privatization Advances; City Would Keep Right to Set Rates (WSJ, Post) Stringer Praises Bus Rapid Transit But Urges DOT to Slow Down on 34th Street (Fox) In Dueling Brad Lander and Louise Hainline Op-Eds on PPW, Only One Depends on Scare Quotes Yassky and Goldsmith: Fares in New Street Hail System Will Equal Yellow Cab … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
9:11 AM EST on February 25, 2011
- Limited-Scale Parking Meter Privatization Advances; City Would Keep Right to Set Rates (WSJ, Post)
- Stringer Praises Bus Rapid Transit But Urges DOT to Slow Down on 34th Street (Fox)
- In Dueling Brad Lander and Louise Hainline Op-Eds on PPW, Only One Depends on Scare Quotes
- Yassky and Goldsmith: Fares in New Street Hail System Will Equal Yellow Cab Fares (News)
- Nowhere Is Safe! CBS 2‘s Shallow Anti-Bike Fearmongering Crosses The Hudson
- Port Authority Accepts “Simply Unacceptable” $3.44 Billion Price Tag for WTC Transit Hub (NYT)
- TLC Hopes to Crack Down on Cabbies Who Refuse Certain Destinations (Post)
- How Many Customers Could Possibly Be Driving to Foley’s Bar in Midtown? (DNAinfo)
- Lighting on Qboro Bridge Bike/Ped Path Insufficient And Unsafe, Says NY1
- Forget All This Safety for Biking and Walking, Lets Build a Garage in Prospect Park (HuffPo)
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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