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8:59 AM EDT on August 10, 2011

    • Times: Governors Should Quit Feigning Surprise at Port Authority Toll Hike, Keep Most of It In Place
    • Andrea Bernstein's Comprehensive Take on the Port Authority Fare/Toll Hikes (Transpo Nation)
    • Hudson County Dems React to Port Authority Plan Very Differently (Politicker NJ)
    • Jim Dwyer Adds to Chorus of Praise for Chris Ward (NYT)
    • Ravitch on Carey's MTA Policies: "Let's Hope It Happens Again" (NY1)
    • Study: Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel Would Reduce Truck Traffic, Even in New England (Crain's)
    • Cas Holloway "Another Ally" at City Hall, Says DOT Insider (Observer)
    • More Coverage of Bike Lanes' 66 Percent Approval Rating (NY1, Observer, Post)
    • NY1 Accentuates the Negative in Select Bus Service Hit Piece
    • Finding Music in Holland Tunnel Honking: Impressively Zen, or Stockholm Syndrome? (NYT)

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Noah Kazis
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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