Today’s Headlines
Even Breathalyzer-Giving Highway Cops Fixed Tickets (NYT) Fixers Got Their Own Tickets: to Yankees, Mets, and Giants (News) After Watching New PSAs, Post Says Even DOT Thinks Cyclists Are Jerks (Post) Second Anti-Bike Share Post Editorial in One Week Warns of Litigious New Yorkers Brand New Riverside Boulevard Already Needs Traffic Calming Median (DNAinfo) City … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
9:13 AM EDT on May 11, 2011
- Even Breathalyzer-Giving Highway Cops Fixed Tickets (NYT)
- Fixers Got Their Own Tickets: to Yankees, Mets, and Giants (News)
- After Watching New PSAs, Post Says Even DOT Thinks Cyclists Are Jerks (Post)
- Second Anti-Bike Share Post Editorial in One Week Warns of Litigious New Yorkers
- Brand New Riverside Boulevard Already Needs Traffic Calming Median (DNAinfo)
- City Asks Developers for Plans for Willets Point Mega-Project (News)
- Post-Election, Mayor Rahm Promises 25 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes a Year (Transpo Nation)
- Philly Is Nation’s Best Big City for Cycling, Says Census (CBS)
- LaHood Wants to Improve Cycling Safety, Probably Isn’t a Hipster (HuffPo)
- Second Ave. Subway Bike Lane Perfect Location: Far From Schumers, Near Third Rail (Final Edition)
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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