Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on May 9, 2012
- Search for Bike-Share Sponsor Went Down to the Wire, Slowing System Rollout (Transpo Nation)
- East Side Access Could Be Delayed Again, to 2019 (WSJ, Transpo Nation)
- To Keep Washington Heights Seniors Safe, DOT Proposes Traffic Calming and Ped Islands (DNAinfo)
- East Side CB Approves of Bike-Share, Including 118 Docks at Grand Central (DNAinfo)
- Bike-Share Prices Worth It, Within Normal Range, But Reflect Lack of Public Subsidy (Guardian)
- Moynihan Station Construction to Begin This Year (WSJ)
- East Coast Greenway to Finally Extend Through Industrial Jersey (WSJ)
- Driver Strikes Flatbush Man Crossing Ditmas Avenue With Breakfast (DNAinfo)
- Heroic Liveblog Brings You Every Federal Transpo Bill Conference Talking Point (Streetsblog DC)
- News: Conference Committee, Schumer, Grimm, Have Chance to Restore Transit Tax Credit
- It’ll Take Hillary Clinton to Keep This Bike Lane Clear (Observer)
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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