Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:50 AM EDT on September 27, 2011
- Cuomo Wants to Broker Deal, Not Sign Bill, on Livery Cabs (NYT, News)
- DMV Dropping Vision Test For License Renewal, Trusts People to Self-Certify Eyesight (Post)
- MTA Adds Two Years to Completion Date for East Side Access, as Feds Predicted (News, Post)
- LIC Businesses Want More Free and More Subsidized On-Street Parking (News)
- News: Since We Don’t Trust Studies, Tinkering With 34th at All Could Only Conceivably Slow Traffic
- The Post Doesn’t Realize Community Input Already Required For Bike Projects
- …And Illustrates Story With Vignette of Man Hit By Cyclist, Without Serious Injury. In 2007. (Post)
- MTA to Sell Real Estate, Including 370 Jay Street and Air Rights Over Bus Depot (WSJ)
- Massapequa Park to Use Sensors For Electronic Parking Enforcement (Newsday)
- Two Bronx Subway Stations Set For Renovations (News)
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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