Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on October 21, 2011
- More on New Transit Chief Joe Lhota (NYT, Post, WSJ, Crain’s, Observer)
- Post: If You Liked Mayor Giuliani, You’ll Like MTA Chair Lhota
- Protected From Competition, Taxi Medallions Sell For $1 Million (NYT)
- Upper East Side CB Reverses Committee, Votes Against Bike Licensing Proposal (DNAinfo)
- Manufacturer Displaced By Eminent Domain in Kosciuszko Bridge Widening Prepares to Exit NY (News)
- Edit Boards: If Pat Foye Can’t Live Up to Chris Ward, It’s Cuomo’s Fault (News, Post)
- Christie Kicks Ward on His Way Out the Door (Star-Ledger)
- Ward: Mayoral Run “Highly Unlikely” But Won’t Rule It Out (Daily Politics)
- NJ Transit Partners With Google to Allow Fare Payment With Smartphones (Star-Ledger)
- New Pedestrian Bridge to Be Installed Across FDR at 78th Street (DNAinfo)
- TLC To Add Six Electric Vehicles to Taxi Fleet in Pilot Program (Post)
- New Haven Fights to Ensure Highway Removal Doesn’t Just Create New Car-Centric Streets (Atlantic)
- Bike Snob: Why Do We Accept Traffic Violence and Blame the Victim?
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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