Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:22 AM EST on March 2, 2011
- City Not Liable for Traffic Cop Who Waved Bus Through Red Light and Into Pedestrian (Post)
- State DOT Interested in Public-Private Partnerships, Especially For Tappan Zee (Times-Union)
- Community-Designed Plan for Prospect Heights Intersection Wins Support from CB, DOT (The Local)
- Gridlock Sam: Protected Bike Lanes Ease Congestion and Increase Mobility (InTransition Mag)
- On Bike Policy, LA City Council Is Way Ahead of NYC Council Members (Streetsblog LA)
- DenDekker Following Up Bike Licensing Bill With ID and Insurance Mandates (Village Voice)
- Observer Editorial Board: 34th Street Is Literally Perfect Just As It Is
- Sunset Park Fights to Enhance Mixed-Use Nature of Neighborhood (News)
- New Cars Add Comfort, Restore Service to Metro-North’s New Haven Line (NYT, Transpo Nation)
- Subway Information System Made Obsolete By Long Delays, Surveillance Demands (News)
- Gas Costs Over $4 Per Gallon at Bronx Stations, Some of Highest Prices In Country (News)
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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