Today’s Headlines
Stringer Comes Out Against 34th Street Transitway (Or NY Post Makes It Seem That Way) Jay Walder Hasn’t Spoken With State About Where to Find $10 Billion for Capital Plan (WSJ) Walder: There’s No Substitute for Payroll Tax (Transpo Nation) Cuomo’s $100M MTA Raid Could Mean Layoffs, Says Walder (News) Supreme Court Kills NYC Plan To Penalize … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
9:07 AM EST on March 1, 2011
- Stringer Comes Out Against 34th Street Transitway (Or NY Post Makes It Seem That Way)
- Jay Walder Hasn’t Spoken With State About Where to Find $10 Billion for Capital Plan (WSJ)
- Walder: There’s No Substitute for Payroll Tax (Transpo Nation)
- Cuomo’s $100M MTA Raid Could Mean Layoffs, Says Walder (News)
- Supreme Court Kills NYC Plan To Penalize Non-Hybrid Taxis (NYT)
- Port Authority Has Eight Firms Interested in Goethals Bridge Public-Private Partnership (SI Advance)
- Christie Shouldn’t Use ARC Money for Roads, But Should Pare Down WTC PATH Station, Argues News
- Michael DenDekker Did Not Do His Homework Before Proposing Bike Licensing Bill (Gothamist)
- Post’s Michael Goodwin Thinks DOT Spends Only on Bikes in Attempt to Create “Third-World City”
- Someone in Williamsburg Really Likes His Surface Parking Lots (NY Shitty)
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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