Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on July 6, 2011
- Marty Golden and Bay Ridge Win Fight to Restore Two Express Bus Lines (Transpo Nation)
- Van Driver Injures Pedestrian on Houston St., Police Say Vehicle Had Green Light (DNAinfo)
- Cortlandt Street Station Construction On Schedule (NYT)
- Progress on Greenway Plans as East Side Pier Set for Construction Work (Crain’s)
- Red Light Cameras Popular, Unless Seen Only as Revenue Source for City (NYT)
- In U.S., Bike-Friendly Cities Have Bike-Friendly Transit — and NYC Doesn’t (NYT)
- NYPD Crackdown Forces Food Trucks Onto Sidewalk (DNAinfo)
- After Collision, Woman Wants All Cyclists Insured (Villager)
- Smart Growth Champ (and Cuomo Ally) Sam Hoyt Takes Senior Econ. Dev. Job (CapTon)
- NJ Increases Transit Hub Tax Credit But Removes Affordable Housing Requirement (WNYC)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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