Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EST on January 13, 2012
- State of City on Transpo: Bikes, Traffic Enforcement, Livery Cabs, and Ed Koch Cameo (Transpo Nation)
- Joan McDonald: Building Transit Would Delay Tappan Zee By Two Years (LoHud)
- Public-Private Partnership Looking Unlikely for Tappan Zee (Daily Yorktown)
- 1,400 Signatures Force Brooklyn CB to Reconsider Lafayette Ave. Bike Lane (NYT)
- Jackson Heights, Daniel Dromm, Want to Make 78th Street Car-Free Every Sunday (News)
- Liz Krueger Hits Cuomo for Ignoring Transit, Martin Dilan Reserves Judgment (City/State 1, 2)
- Six Injured as School Bus Driver Hits Car, Jumps Curb and Pins Pedestrian Against House (NY1, NYT)
- For PPW NIMBYism, Iris Weinshall Named One of 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers (Voice)
- Fresh Direct May Move to Bronx For Better Freight Rail Access (Crain’s)
- Enviros: Listening to the People Means Putting Transit on Tappan Zee (CapTon)
- Sidewalks Widened Near Manhattan Bridge Entrance, Plaza Construction to Start in 2013 (DNAinfo)
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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