Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:03 AM EDT on April 28, 2011
- Most Placards Are Being Used Illegally … (NYT, Transpo Nation)
- … So Will Special Privilege-Scorning Bloomberg Take Them On Again? (NYT)
- Bloomberg’s Back-Up Taxi Plan: Create New Yellow Cabs Barred From Manhattan Pick-Ups (NYT)
- Taxi Drivers Explain Economics of Fare Refusals (WNYC)
- Avella and Stavisky Blast Bonacic Bridge Toll Plan as Middle Class Tax (CapTon)
- Lander Bill to Ease Alternate Side Parking on Clean Streets Likely to Pass (WSJ)
- If You Think the Bikelash Is Bad, Remember When the New Vehicle Actually Killed (NY Press)
- Bike Maintenance: It’s A Good Thing (Martha Stewart)
- Complete Streets Report Ranks DOT Strategic Plan Tops, Street Design Manual Third (MTR)
- Markowitz Compares Bike Lane Fans to Great Leap Forward Maoists, False Prophets (Sheepshead Bites)
- Hoboken Wins Walk-Friendly Community Award for Recent Safety Initiatives (Walkfriendly.org)
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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