Today’s Headlines

9:01 AM EDT on May 13, 2011

No Action Seen on MTA Capital Deficit Until Fall (Crain's)
Skeletons, Not 20 MPH Speed Limit, Draw Media Attention (NYT, WSJ)
Bloomberg Stands Fully Behind Sadik-Khan (Politicker)
Another Q Poll Shows Support For Bike Lanes, But Few Believe They're Well-Used (WSJ)
As Outer Borough-Only Taxi Plans Develop, City Council Increases Fines For Refusing Fares (Post, NYT)
Truck Driver Kills Tricycling Four-Year-Old, Drags Under Wheels 200 Feet Before Noticing (News)
NJ Transit Proposes Extending Light Rail 7/10 Mile West From Jersey City (Transpo Nation)
Town and County Support Road Diet For Deadly Rt 25/25A, But Where Is NYSDOT? (MTR)
Chutzpah Award: Christie Blames N.J. Senators For Not Securing HSR Funds (WSJ)
After Eight Months of Debate, Upper Manhattan CB Agrees to Discuss Bike Lanes (DNAinfo)
Trump "Limo Lane" Mixes Parking and Privilege For Perfect Storm of Controversy (DNAinfo, WPIX)
Metropolis Magazine Calmly Demolishes The PPW Bike Lane Opposition

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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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