Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:56 AM EST on February 6, 2012
- Missing Funding Plan for Tappan Zee Delays Construction Process (WSJ)
- DCP May Lift Parking Maximums Near Theater District, Hospitals (NYT)
- …While In Brooklyn, Little Parking Minimum Relief May Be Coming (NYT)
- Greenwood Heights Residents Propose Their Own 20 MPH Speed Limit (Bklyn Paper)
- Long Island Senators Keep Trying to Chip Away at MTA Payroll Tax (WSJ)
- Advance: State Shouldn’t Underfund MTA, Then Charge Them For Debt
- SUV Driver Hits Car, Curb, Scaffolding (Post)
- Rangel, Nadler, Lhota and Sadik-Khan to Speak Out Against GOP Attack on Transit (AMNY)
- Nan Hayworth: Transit-Free Tappan Zee as Great as House Transpo Bill (LoHud)
- Post Connects Lew Fidler’s Parking Entitlement With Carl Kruger’s Accepting Bribes
- Genting Would Only Fund Super-Express A Train to Convention Center (Kabak)
- Report Suggests MTA Cut Service For Lower-Ridership Fridays (News)
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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