Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on April 8, 2011
- Think the Third Term, Cathie Black Backlash Has Rubbed Off on DOT and Livable Streets? (NYT, WSJ)
- Cuomo Institutes Parking Placard Reforms for State Officials (NYT, Transpo Nation)
- Sandi Vega Explains How Complete Streets Could Have Saved Her Daughter’s Life (MTR)
- Peter Vallone and Christine Quinn Ax FDNY Crash Fee Proposal (WSJ)
- Chelsea Cops Promise to Crank Up Bike Blitz as Weather Improves (Chelsea Now)
- Grace Meng Introduces Transit Riders’ Bill of Rights In Assembly (Queens Trib)
- Downtown Express Reports on the Overheated Politics of Pop-Up Cafés
- Parking Space Punch Victim Regains Consciousness After Two Months (Post)
- Four EV Charging Stations and Electric Car-Sharing Are Coming to LES Co-op (Villager)
- Rutgers-Newark Responds to Parking Problem By Encouraging Cycling (Star-Ledger)
- Next Up for Upstate Pedestrians: Body Armor (Buffalo 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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