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8:56 AM EDT on September 9, 2011

    • MTA Debt Downgrade Could Shrink Capital Plan, Cut Needed Repairs (Crain's, Transpo Nation)
    • Officials Warn of 9/11 Car Bomb Threat at Transit Hubs (News, NYT)
    • East Village Sees 50 Percent Drop in Parking Tickets Issued, Boom in Bike Ticketing (DNAinfo)
    • Karen Schmeer Killer Cries in Contrition After Receiving 5-15 Year Sentence (Post)
    • Cyclists Say Williamsburg Bridge Barriers And High Ramp Speeds Make Dangerous Combination (News)
    • New Jersey Officially Redirects ARC Tunnel Money to State DOT (Transpo Nation, Star-Ledger)
    • Ozone Park Agrees: A Faster Q41 One Block Away Would Be Terrible (QChron)
    • Good Reviews For New Ford Van Taxi (WSJ)
    • MTA Bus Drivers Are the New Firemen (News)

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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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