Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM EDT on June 13, 2011

Bloomberg Asks to Enforce Parking Regs With Street Sweeper Cams, Gets No Support in Albany (NYT)
CMs Vacca and Koslowitz Fight Against Meter Hike, As Forest Hills Merchants Complain (News)
With Weiner Out, Markowitz Eyes Mayor's Race (Post)
Nassau Selects Veolia to Run LI Bus, But No Contract Yet (Transpo Nation, MTR)
Restaurants Demand Deliverymen Ride Electric Bikes Even Though They're Illegal (City Room)
Plan to Truck Less Garbage Hits NIMBY Resistance on Upper East Side (City Room)
MTA Fence Contractors Plead Guilty to Defrauding Agency and Grand Larceny (News)
Weiner's Other Scandal: Lapsed Vehicle Registration and Illegal License Plates (News)
Traffic Calming and Off-Street Bike Path Planned For Springfield Blvd (Q Chron)
In New Jersey, Recovery Takes Hold Fastest Near Rail Stations (WSJ)
Michael Daly: Confiscate the Phones of Distracted Drivers (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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