Today’s Headlines

9:13 AM EDT on May 9, 2011

Future of MTA Fare Payment: Contactless Credit Cards, Variable Rates (News)
Northeast Corridor Wins $800M of Florida's Rejected High-Speed Rail Money (WSJ, AP)
Comptroller's Office Announces More MTA Operating Deficits, Calls for "Reform" (CapTon)
Drunk Tour Bus Driver Kills Pedestrian, Drags Him Dozens Of Feet (NYT, Post)
Driver Slams Into Midwood Bagel Shop, Seriously Injures Two Pedestrians, No Charges Expected (News)
Tour Bus Driver With 16 License Suspensions Leads Police on High Speed Chase (News)
The Post Has Already Decided That New Yorkers Don't Want Bike-Share...
... And on Same Day, Runs Yet Another Editorial Blasting the Plaza Program
DCP to Rezone Brooklyn's Fourth Ave to Promote Ground Floor Retail, Not Parking (Patch)
NYPD Promotes Larger No-Parking Zone on Lower East Side to Cut Late-Night Traffic (Post)
Schumer Wants to Bring Hassle and Costs of Airport Security to Amtrak (Post)
PATH Train Hits Platform, Injures 34 (News)

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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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