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9:00 AM EDT on April 29, 2011

    • TLC Considering 15 Percent Taxi Fare Hike, First Since 2004 (Post)
    • Tix Fix Wiretap Shows NYPD Highway Squad Greater Sticklers for Rules (Post)
    • Construction Industry Opposes Gas Tax Holiday, But Cuomo Doesn't Rule It Out (CapTon 1, 2)
    • Boy, That Chris Christie Sure Does Worry About Huge Subsidies and Cost Overruns (NYT)
    • Christie's Port Authority Bailout Could Stiff PABT Bus Riders (MTR)
    • NE Bronx Group Wants All Corner Lots Turned Into Parking, Higher Parking Minimums (Bx Times)
    • Flashback: East Side Bike Lanes Necessary for Bike-Sharing, Said JSK in 2010 (Transpo Nation)
    • Ben Kabak: Little Progress on Bloomberg's 2009 Transportation Platform
    • City Planning Aims To Reinvigorate "Fur District" South of Penn Station (DNAinfo)

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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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