Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on April 20, 2012
- TLC Offers Final Approval For 5 Borough Taxi Plan (WSJ, NYT, Post)
- Lefevre Family Has Day in Court Fighting for Information From NYPD (Voice)
- Rockaway Residents Fight to Curb Speeding, Want More Traffic Lights (News)
- Markowitz to Crain’s: I Don’t Hate Bikes
- Cyclist Donates $40 Million For Brooklyn Bridge Park Velodrome (NYT)
- West Side Pier to Offer Traffic-Free Site To Learn To Bike (NYT)
- Judge Tosses Suit Over Free Curbside Space For Megabus (DNAinfo)
- Senate Appropriations Committee OKs $20M for Gateway Tunnel Planning (WSJ)
- The Villager Offers More Coverage of Plans for CB 3 Bike Share
- Station Renovations Continue Along 6 Train in Bronx (BxTimes)
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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