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8:59 AM EST on December 12, 2011

    • Cuomo's First Year Offered Only Bad News For Transit (WNYC)
    • "Emergency Meeting" Called to Grapple With Cuomo's Anti-Transit Actions (CapTon)
    • Mitchell Moss: "Subway Riders Get the Shaft" in Albany Tax Deal (NYT)
    • Bronx Has Slow Buses, But Newfound Political Juice at MTA (News)
    • Hit-And-Run Puts Pedestrian in Critical Condition Where Jazz Singer Was Killed Last Month (DNAinfo)
    • Livery Bill Negotiations: Not Quite Dead Yet (Post)
    • Cyclist Seriously Injured in Prospect Park at Site of NYPD Crackdown (Bklyn Paper)
    • Cuomo Promises to Add Transit Back Into Infrastructure Fund (Transpo Nation)
    • Hudson Valley Businesses Cheer MTA Payroll Tax Cut as Transit Advocates Worry (LoHud)
    • Gannett Investigation Finds No Accountability for Over-Budget Highway Spending
    • Matt Long Recovers From Bike/Bus Crash, Finds Happiness and Health (NYT)

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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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