Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on July 11, 2011
- Shared Bike-Ped Paths Through Central Park to Open as Soon as This Month (NYT)
- Drunk Driver Hits Girlfriend in Midtown, Flees Scene, Then Overturns Car on Highway (News 1, 2)
- Weekend Subway Ridership at Historic Highs, Creating Conflict With Repairs (NYT)
- Profile of Christie’s Port Authority Chair Highlights Shift to Road Projects (Star-Ledger)
- Black Women Who Bike D.C. Band Together (WaPo)
- Access-A-Ride, Vanpools and Private Cars Replace Cut Bus Routes For Some (WSJ)
- Popularity of East River Ferry Among Young Families Surprises Operators (News)
- Suburbs, Already Livid Over Payroll Tax, Turn on MTA Surcharges (Record)
- Anti-Idling Law Remains Largely Unenforced, Even Near Schools (NY1)
- Op-Ed: Replace Second Avenue Subway With Light Rail (News)
- Port Authority to Study Expanding Runways at Airports (Crain’s)
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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