Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on July 27, 2011
- MTA Plans to Close Capital Deficit With $7B In Debt, Port Authority Funds (WSJ)
- Even With All That Borrowing, MTA Thinks It Can Avoid Service Cuts and Big Fare Hikes (Post)
- MTA Proposes Value Capture Near Second Avenue, East Side Access for More Revenue (Newsday)
- News: Walder Wrote Good, But Fragile, Operating Budget
- After Months of Pressure, NYPD Finally Starts Ticketing Placarded Cars Near Atlantic Yards (News)
- New York State’s First Public Bike-Share Program, With 400 Bikes, Coming to Long Beach (MTR)
- Westchester’s Bee-Line Buses, Used By Transit-Dependent Commuters, Hits Record Ridership (MTR)
- East Siders Imagine New Waterfront Park, Part of Proposed Future Greenway (NYT)
- Ray Kelly: Raise Fine for Fare-Beating (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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