Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM EST on November 28, 2011

Region's Toll Roads See Traffic Decline Due to Unemployment, High Gas Prices (WSJ)
If Only the Daily News Paid This Much Attention to Dangerous Locations for Car Traffic
Central Park Cyclist Sues Pedestrian After Crash, Post Caption Calls Biking Child "Ride-Zilla"
No Transit on Tappan Zee Means More Pollution, More Congestion, Says Riverkeeper (LoHud)
Assm. Ellen Jaffee Repeats Cuomo Admin Line, Claims Transit-Free Tappan Zee Helps Transit (LoHud)
Mark-Viverito, CB 11 Chair Believe Board Will Support East Harlem Bike Lanes Again (Transpo Nation)
Residential Parking Permit Fight Creates Strange Bedfellows in Brooklyn (City Hall)
Federal Judge Presses City on Wheelchair Accessible Taxis, Ruling Due By Christmas (Transpo Nation)
The Times Op-Ed Page Takes On Suburban Sprawl at Home and at Work (NYT 1, 2)
Was Losing the Olympics the Best Possible Outcome For New York? (NYT)
Hope Cohen: It's Time For a Brand-New Zoning Code (News)
How the 34th Street BID Gave SBS a Graphic Design Upgrade (Bryant Park Blog)

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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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