Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on September 7, 2011
- Union Square Traffic Redesign a Success: Speeding Down, Biking Up, Businesses Happy (DNAinfo)
- MTA Management — Without Raise for Four Years — Wracked With Dangerously High Turnover (Post)
- Straphangers Want Next MTA Chief to Be Politically Savvy Transit Expert (News)
- Southbound Cortlandt Street Station Reopens Before 9/11 Anniversary (Post, 2nd Ave Sagas)
- Kabak: Are Subways Safer Now Than Ten Years Ago?
- Staten Island Lobbies for Special Discounts on Tolls (Advance)
- Brooklyn Paper Reports Death of Cyclist Nicholas Djandji
- ConnDOT Forcing New Haven’s Historic Highway Teardown to End With Autocentric Street (MTR)
- Downtown Alliance Hopes Public Art Will Make Walking By Holland Tunnel Traffic Bearable (DNAinfo)
- Latest Rain Storm Closes Irene-Soaked Highways Again (LoHud)
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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