Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:58 AM EDT on July 2, 2012
- Despite Danger, CB 10 Still Hasn’t OKed Adam Clayton Powell Traffic Calming Plan (NYT)
- Seifman: City Skipping Planned Street Test of Bike-Share System, Alta Can Raise Rates (Post)
- Federal Transpo Bill Could Mean Cheaper Loans for Tappan Zee, Financing Still Murky (Journal News)
- Journal News: Cuomo Admin Needs to Start Communicating About Tappan Zee
- Four Injured as Taxi Crashes Into Broadway Staples (Gothamist)
- Eight-Year-Old Frankelly Acevedo Hospitalized by Hit-And-Run Livery Cab (News)
- Real-Time Bus Info Provides Some Consolation for Red Hook Service Cuts (Transpo Nation)
- Anti-Occupy Barriers Force Pedestrians Into Street Near Wall Street Bull, Says CB (Post)
- Subway Manufacturer Agrees to Stay in Yonkers (WSJ)
- Schumer Bill to Display Bus Company Safety Grades Passes Congress (WSJ)
- Meet Thomas Abdalleh, MTA’s Chief Environmental Engineer (Epoch Times)
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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