Today’s Headlines
New Pedestrian Plaza at Bronx Hub Emerging as Centerpiece of Neighborhood Revitalization (WSJ) Times Editorial Urges Cuomo to Sign Bloomberg Taxi Bill Binghamton Leaders Hope Cuomo Signs Complete Streets Law (YNN) Suffolk County Has Region’s Highest Bike Fatality Rate, With Hispanics Most in Danger (MTR) Bystanders Gathered Around Lamar Odom, Not Teen Killed in Crash (News) … Continued
By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on July 20, 2011
- New Pedestrian Plaza at Bronx Hub Emerging as Centerpiece of Neighborhood Revitalization (WSJ)
- Times Editorial Urges Cuomo to Sign Bloomberg Taxi Bill
- Binghamton Leaders Hope Cuomo Signs Complete Streets Law (YNN)
- Suffolk County Has Region’s Highest Bike Fatality Rate, With Hispanics Most in Danger (MTR)
- Bystanders Gathered Around Lamar Odom, Not Teen Killed in Crash (News)
- Almost Half of Subway Fare-Beaters Are Children (News)
- Post: Will Midtown Traffic Cams Make Up for Bike Lanes and Plazas?
- In Carroll Gardens, Bike Parking Will Keep Cars Out of Daylighting Zone (Bklyn Paper)
- John Samuelson, Nicole Gelinas Argue Transit Worker Layoffs, Pay Freeze (Post, Torch)
- Congestion Pricing: Politically Impossible, or Politically Inevitable? (City Hall)
- Connecticut Continues to Buy New Cars for New Haven Line, Though Fare Hike Rankles Some (Post)
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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