Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EST on March 2, 2012
- In Westchester, Calls for Mass Transit Dominate Tappan Zee Public Hearing (LoHud)
- Flushing Traffic Improvements Reduced Injuries 30 Percent, Unclogged Congestion (Times-Ledger)
- Six Injured, Including Elderly Pedestrian, as Driver Plows Into Queens Grocery (Times-Ledger)
- You Can’t Correct the Lies Coming Out About Tappan Zee Fast Enough (TSTC, LoHud)
- Midwood Plaza Opponent: “If People Want to Walk, They Should Go to the Park” (Bklyn Daily)
- NYT Celebrates Destruction of Verrazano Tollbooths, Preservation of Truck Tsunami
- Pat Foye Defends Governors’ Theft of Dedicated Transit Funds (Capital)
- Rockland Weighs Value of Remaining in MTA, Based on New Study (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Richmond Hill Merchants Want Density, Woodhaven Residents Want Single-Families (News)
- Feds Bust Decade-Long Scheme to Cheat Commercial Drivers License Test (NYT)
- Will G Train Extension Continue Even After Construction Ends? (Bklyn Paper)
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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