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8:59 AM EST on February 27, 2012

    • Weekend Subway Ridership Highest Since 1947, Weekday Highest Since 1951 (News)
    • City Vehicle Fleet Larger Than Under Giuliani, With Smaller City Workforce (Post)
    • At Tappan Zee Hearings, Support For Transit Expected to Again Top Agenda (LoHud)
    • Post: Only "Lawyer-Larded Luddites" Oppose Transit-Free Tappan Zee
    • In Prospect Park, DOT Removes Orange Barrels, Asks What To Do Next (Bklyn Paper)
    • New Jersey Vehicular Murderer Held on $3 Million Bail (Post)
    • Meet a Few of Manhattan's Top NIMBYs (Crain's, NYT)
    • MTA Moves Aggressively and Successfully to Collect Fines (News)
    • Interactive Map Shows Hudson Valley's Most Dangerous Roads (LoHud)
    • Boston's Top Bike-Share Users, None Previously a Bike Commuter, Like Convenience (Your Town)

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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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