Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM EDT on October 28, 2011

Jury Finds Driver Not Guilty of Homicide in 2010 Fatal Bike Crash, Sentences Him to Ten Days Jail (Post)
Sixteen Arrested For Ticket-Fixing, Related Corruption Charges (NYT)
...Tix Fix Charges Could Threaten Thousands of Routine Cases (News)
Tappan Zee Financials Pending, While Residents Keep Calling For Transit (LoHud, TranspoNation)
Transportation Engineer: Transit-Free Tappan Zee Will Create "Boom in Sprawl" (LoHud)
Q Poll Finds 56 Percent Support Statewide for MTA Payroll Tax (2nd Ave Sagas)
Safety Improvements Finally Installed at Upper West Side "Bowtie of Death" (W Side Rag)
US Attorney Brings Charges Against 11 in $1B LIRR Disability Fraud Case (NYT)
Staten Island Wants Transit or Lower Tolls Before Spending on Secaucus 7 (Advance 1, 2)
Joe Lhota's First Day at the MTA (Post)
Jessica Lappin, Civitas, Hold Design Contest to Revitalize East River Greenway Uptown (DNAinfo)
Who Should Play Robert Moses in Oliver Stone's HBO Biopic Based on The Power Broker? (Gothamist)

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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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