Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EST on January 9, 2012
- New Livery Cabs Will Have Same Fare as Yellow Taxis (NYT)
- Are Express Trains to Queens Convention Center Possible? (WNYC)
- Casey Neistat Makes PSA: Don’t Text While Walking (NYT)
- With “Huge Cry for Mass Transit” on Tappan Zee, Journal News Looks to Details of Bus Plan
- Declaring Tappan Zee Transit Impossible, Rockland Business Assoc. Attacks “Obstructionists” (LoHud)
- Another Bronx Prosecutor Arrested for Drunk Driving (Post)
- Pete Donohue to MTA and TWU: Please Reach an Agreement (News)
- At Home With TWU President John Samuelsen (News)
- NYT Architecture Critic Takes on Parking Lots, Calls for End to NYC Parking Minimums
- New La Guardia Terminal Planned, With Optimistic Room For Rail Connection (WSJ)
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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