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8:59 AM EST on December 16, 2011

    • Cuomo Tells Broad Pro-Transit Tappan Zee Coalition He Won't Pay For Buses (LoHud)
    • Work Rules, Not Wages, Top Issue in MTA/TWU Negotiations So Far (News)
    • With Half-Million Rides, East River Ferries Sail Past Predictions (DNAinfo)
    • In Latest Taxi Summit, Cuomo Grills Yassky About Handicapped Permits (News, Transpo Nation)
    • Op-Ed: Cuomo Infrastructure Fund Plan Flunks Transparency, Accountability Tests (Times-Union)
    • Transit Matters: MTA, NJ Transit, HopStop Top New York Google Searches in 2011 (Gothamist)
    • Staten Island North Shore Plan Would Boost Bike/Ped Access, But Needs MTA Assist (Advance)
    • Lew Fidler, Community Board Oppose Bike Lane Request for Emmons Avenue (Sheepshead Bites)
    • Amtrak Now Claims It Needs Rent-Free Moynihan Station to Increase Service (Bloomberg)
    • City's Child Obesity Rate Drops Over Last Five Years (NYT)
    • Architects Go Crazy With Idea of Manhattan Grid (Curbed)

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Noah Kazis
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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