Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on August 1, 2011
- Cuomo Never Met in Person With Walder, Hasn’t Paid Any Attention to MTA (NYT)
- Two USDOT Officials, Karen Rae and Polly Trottenberg, Mentioned for MTA Job (Crain’s)
- NYT: Cuomo Must Pick Transit Professional, City, State and Drivers All Must Chip in for Capital Plan
- Post: Labor Negotiations Should Be Top Priority For Next MTA Chief
- Bloomberg Not Leaping to Up City Contribution to MTA Capital Plan, as MTA Budgeted (Transpo Nation)
- Workers Start Late and End Early on Subway Diversions, Say Comptrollers (News, NYT)
- 13-Year-Old Dies Saving Other Kids From Crashing Range Rover (News, Post)
- Van Driver Hits and Kills Elmhurst 2-Year-Old Who Ran Into Street For Candy (News, Post)
- News: “The Scariest Part of the Lower East Side Is Trying to Cross The Street”
- Seems Like NYT Mag’s Russell Shorto Hasn’t Seen an NYC Bike Lane Aside From the Central Park Loop
- Riding Transit, Mets’ Dickey Gets Pitching Advice, Book Recommendations (NYT)
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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