Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:08 AM EDT on April 4, 2011
- State Senate’s Long Island Bus Deal Staves Off Disastrous Service Cuts (Transpo Nation)
- Transpo Nation Analysis of Brennan PPW Poll: “They Like It. They Really Like It.”
- PJ O’Rourke: Bike Lanes All a Scheme to Create Infantile Government Dependency, Ha Ha (WSJ)
- NY Post Plays the 9/11 Card in Opposing Battery Bikeway
- Cuozzo Uses Times Square Food Vendor Plan as Opportunity to Mourn Beautiful Traffic Lights (Post)
- Is NYPD’s Central Park Bike Crackdown Really About Ray Kelly’s Belief in Vehicular Cycling? (City Room)
- Gibson Dunn Announces Pro Bono Award Winners. Maybe Next Year, Jim Walden
- Meet a Proud Member of “Neighbors for Better Trash Collection” (News)
- Oh, To Be a Fly on This Wall (Observer)
- You Haven’t Heard the Last of Markowitz’s Bike Lane Mockery (Bklyn Paper)
- April Fools’ Day Redux: The Chuck Schumer Holland Bike Tunnel (WNYC)
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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