Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EST on February 17, 2012
- Jasmine Herron Killer on Trial, But Only For Driving With Suspended License (News)
- Transpo Experts: Progress, Congestion Pricing, Must Outlast Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg (Capital)
- DOT Will Install and Evaluate Fowler Square Plaza (Patch)
- Joan McDonald Continues to Cite Unexplained $5B Cost For Tappan Zee Transit (City/State)
- After Years of Advocacy, NYS DOT Agrees to Make Hempstead Turnpike Safer (MTR)
- Subway Service Essential to Williamsburg Businesses, Weekend Closures Hurt Bars (Post)
- Marty Golden Requests Ferry Service, But City Says Riders Wouldn’t Be There (Bklyn Daily)
- Hudson Square Development Would Replace Parking Lot With 230 Apartments, Park (DNAinfo)
- Al Sharpton’s Car Impounded at Airport for Illegal Parking, Lack of Insurance (Post)
- Bill Cunningham Okay After SUV Driver Runs Over His Foot (Gothamist)
- SF Police Stake Claim to Being America’s Most Incompetent Traffic Enforcers (Streetsblog SF)
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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