Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on June 1, 2012
- Council Member David Greenfield Wants to Mandate Helmets For All Cyclists (WSJ)
- Wolfson: To Keep Cyclists Safe, Try Supporting Bike Lanes (Transpo Nation)
- Red Hook Residents, Electeds, TWU Team Up To Fight for Red Hook Buses (WNET)
- Parallel Parking Driver Pins Teacher Phyllis Pitt Against McDonalds and Kills Her (News)
- Feds Shut Down 26 Curbside Bus Companies (NYT)
- State Still Won’t Release Tappan Zee Docs, 111 Days Later (MTR)
- Thruway Truck Tolls Going Up 45 Percent, Unrelated to TZB Financing (Times-Union)
- DOT Proposes Extending Fifth Avenue Bike Route Through Sunset Park (DNAinfo)
- Why Does This Brand New Subway Station Already Have Leaks? (Tribeca Trib)
- After Recount, Republican David Storobin Defeats Lew Fidler to Win Brooklyn Senate Seat (NYT)
- The Journal Profiles New York’s Old-School Schwinn Bike Clubs
- Will Livery Cabs Start Legally Taking Street Hails This Monday? (DNAinfo)
- Miami Cops Get Serious, Write One Failure to Yield Ticket Per Minute (Miami Herald)
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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