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8:55 AM EDT on September 19, 2011

    • Congestion Pricing 2.0: $1B in Revenue, Fare Hike Reprieve, Outer-Borough Toll Discounts (News)
    • DOT to Replace Last Single-Space Parking Meter in Manhattan With Muni-Meter Today (NYT)
    • Interactive Touchscreens Bring Travel Directions, Service Advisories, News to MTA Hubs (News)
    • Staten Island Advance: Motorists' Disdain For Traffic Laws Near School a "Ticking Time Bomb"
    • Port Authority Toll Hikes Push Some to Transit; Most Will Keep Driving (WSJ)
    • Bloomberg: Paying Higher Tolls Better Than Letting Bridges Fall Down (Post)
    • While Leaving Transit Unfunded, Gearhead Governor Cuomo Heads to the Auto Show (NYT)
    • The Daily News Takes a Ride in a Dollar Van
    • Speeding SUV Driver Kills Bronx Man in Hit-And-Run (News)
    • State Assembly Can't Send Anyone To Congress, Silver Can't Win Local Party Races (News 1, 2)

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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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