Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EDT on September 16, 2011

NYPD Brass Push Quotas as Traffic Summonses Fall By Up to 79 Percent in Tix Fix Wake (News)
AAA May Sue Over Port Authority Toll Hikes, Doesn't Want Drivers To Pay For Ground Zero (Post)
Daily News Reporters: Bike-Share Will Be Safe and Popular in New York
Daily News Editors: Bike-Share Will Be Dangerous, Congesting and Only For Tourists
Anti-Fact Post Agrees: Bike-Share Means "Colorfully Costumed Kamikazes" Hitting More Pedestrians
But Don't Try to Out-Crazy Steve Cuozzo -- He Says Bike-Share Will Mean More Murders (Post)
Clyde Haberman Makes Good Points About Bike-Share on Sidewalks in Utterly Churlish Way (NYT)
Brooklyn Paper Searches for Controversy in the Bike-Share Story
Meanwhile, in Boston... (Brooklyn Spoke)
Two Drivers Flee Scene of Deadly Queens Crash (News)
Newsday: Governor Should Sign Livery Cab Bill, Help Millions Outside Manhattan
MTA Brings Back Vignelli Map To Show Weekend Service Changes (NYT)
Bike Ambassadors Promote Safe Behavior as Bike Access Restored to Riverside Park Path (DNAinfo)

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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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