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By Noah Kazis

9:01 AM EST on February 10, 2012

Tappan Zee DEIS Fails to Explain Cost of Transit or How to Fund Bloated Road (MTR)
Quinn State of the City Doesn’t Mention Transportation, Urban Planning (NYT)
Tappan Zee Bidders Are Same Companies With Massive Cost Overruns on Nearby Projects (LoHud)
Andrea Bernstein Explains How House Transpo Bill Would Batter NYC (WNYC)
Port Authority Audit Intended to Allow Governors to “Dismantle an Institution” (Crain’s)
Driver Injures Cyclist at Vanderbilt and Myrtle (Patch)
A Billboard Fell Onto a Highway? Vacca Is on It (News)
Albany Democrats Want Independent Inspector General for NYPD (NYT)
Lizardo Aldana, 89-Year-Old Killed By Driver, Stayed in City to Stay Independent (Post)
Growth of Digital, Creative Firms Helped Make Hudson Square a Bike Neighborhood (DNAinfo)
NYC DOT Wins Plaudits For Embracing Technology (Thirteen)

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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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