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8:52 AM EDT on October 17, 2011

    • Journal News: "It Is As If Robert Moses Was Being Channeled" Without Transit on Tappan Zee
    • East River Ferry Service Popular, But High Subsidies Stand in Way of Expansion (NYT)
    • Bay Ridge Merchants Happy to See Meter Prices Rise If It Makes Parking Easier (Bklyn Paper)
    • Kimmelman: Occupy Wall Street Shows Power of Public Space (NYT)
    • The News Wants Entire Taxi Fleet Handicapped-Accessible, Bloomberg Does Not (News, Post)
    • City Promotes, But Does Not Require, Bike Helmets as Bike-Share Approaches (NYT)
    • Aging MTA Buses Mean More Frequent Breakdowns (News)
    • NYPD Data Show Distracted Driving Top Cause of August Crashes (News)
    • With Transit Scrapped From Tappan Zee, State Scrubs Website of Old Documentation (Cap'n Transit)
    • Could Leaving Old Tappan Zee Up As Bike/Ped Bridge Save on Demolition Costs? (NYT)
    • Amtrak Blocking Completion of Bronx River Greenway, But Serrano Pushes for Resolution (News)
    • Pete Donahue Says Joe Lhota "Right Fit" For MTA, Can't Explain Why (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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