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8:58 AM EDT on August 12, 2011

    • Cops Threaten Even Greater Slowdown in Response to Tix Fix Discipline Plan (Post)
    • At Manhattan Bridge, News Sees "Two-Wheeled Army Run Amok," "Fear Getting Out Of Our Cars"
    • Cuozzo: New Jersey Is Trying To Take Control of Port Authority, Get Ready for a Fight (Post)
    • Ravitch Back at MTA? "No Way In Hell," He Says (Post)
    • Second Derailment of Week Snarls NJ Transit; Good Thing No One Built Second Tunnel (Transpo Nation)
    • Cars as Weapons: Verizon Uses Company Vehicles to Hit and Intimidate Strikers (Star-Ledger)
    • HopStop Adds Carbon Emissions Count to Trip Directions (Gothamist)
    • How Traffic Engineer Gary Toth Lost Faith in "Wider, Straighter, Faster" Roads (New Atlantis)
    • Pitcher Jeremy Guthrie Persuaded Ten Orioles to Bike to Work, Doesn't Like NYC Streets (Spacing)
    • Scary Questions: What Would Le Corbusier Drive? (ArchPaper)

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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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