Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:56 AM EST on December 14, 2011
- NYT to Cuomo: Stop Stalling and Sign the Outer-Borough Taxi Bill
- Taxi Deal Sidelined By Fight Over Hospital Privatization (Post)
- Signing MTA Tax Cut, Cuomo Promises to Build More Roads (Newsday)
- Cuomo Public-Private Investment Plan Doesn’t Offer Much for MTA (HuffPo)
- On Tappan Zee Bridge, “Are Governments Coercing Funds to Invest?” (Asset Int’l)
- Upper West Side CB Asks E-Bike Riders for License and Registration (DNAinfo)
- Eight-Mile Extension of NJ Transit Light Rail Moves Forward (Star-Ledger)
- Donations Keep Bicycle Sundays in Place on Bronx River Parkway (LoHud)
- At PATH Station, Hoboken Installs Bike Racks and Repair Kit (NBC)
- Outer Borough Cabs Would Be Painted Green (Crain’s)
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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