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Today’s Headlines

9:06 AM EDT on April 22, 2011

    • MTA Looks to Cut Capital Plan, Could Postpone 2012 Projects (Crain's)
    • PlaNYC Update Coverage: Not Much About Transpo (NYT, Post, Gotham Gazette)
    • Livery Cab Driver Smashes Into Bronx Department Store, Kills 61-Year-Old, Injures Six (News, NYT)
    • In Lead Up to Borough Taxi Plan, TLC Cracks Down On Illegal Street Hails (News)
    • Manhattan Beach Group Threatens Protests for Traffic Calming, Against Bike Lane (Courier-Life)
    • The Center of the Bronx Scandal Venn Diagram: Ticket Fixing for Yankee Stadium Exec (DNAinfo)
    • On Earth Day, Enviros Name Complete Streets Bill a Super Piece of Legislation (MTR)
    • Bike-Share Will Launch in Boston This Summer (Streetsblog DC)
    • DOT Agrees to Work With CB 12 to Improve Bike/Ped Safety at Greenway Entrance (DNAinfo)
    • Driver Slams Into Brooklyn Heights Promenade (Bklyn Paper)

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Noah Kazis
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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