Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:49 AM EDT on April 9, 2012
- Only Two Out of 21 Drivers Who Killed Cyclists Last Year Arrested, And Here’s Why (Transpo Nation)
- 710,000 Fewer Parking Tickets Issued Last Year, But At Higher Cost (Post)
- With Newest Bill, City Council Still Letting Parkers Drive Transpo Agenda (Post)
- Midtown-Bound M Train Sees Huge Ridership Gains (Kabak)
- Whenever Albany Says “Parity,” MTA Riders Should Run The Other Way (Cap’n Transit)
- State Budget Provides Small Boost For Long Island Bus Riders (MTR)
- Staten Island Hit-And-Run Killer Turns Self In, Charged With Fleeing Scene (Post)
- Half of Lots in SoHo Historic District Expansion Are Vacant or Parking (Post)
- Local Officials Ask For Transit on Tappan Zee, More Time to Comment (LoHud)
- Markowitz: Sam Schwartz Bike Tolls Would End With Pedestrians Paying Too (Crain’s)
- Plan Advances to Create Pedestrian-Oriented Market Under Harlem Train Tracks (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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