Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on July 11, 2012
- More Coverage of Yesterday’s Slow Speed Zone Announcement (NYT, Post, NY1)
- CB10 Wants to Keep Dangerous, Highway-Style Lanes on ACP Blvd (DNAinfo)
- Thirteen Curb Extensions Coming to Protect Upper West Side Schools (DNAinfo)
- How Did NYC’s Speed Limit Become 30 MPH? And Why Is Subway Construction So Costly? (NYT)
- What Amtrak’s Vision for Northeast Corridor HSR Means For New York (Capital)
- The Post Found a Building Manager to Attack Vanderbilt Ave Plaza
- Drunk, Unlicensed Driver Kills Electrical Worker Frank Avino on Grand Central Parkway (Post)
- Cuomo Claims Adding Tappan Zee Transit Would Double Bridge Tolls (Transpo Nation)
- News: Nan Hayworth Refused to Fight For Transit Tax Credit in Transpo Bill
- Doesn’t the Post Usually Like It When There’s More Parking? Not On Hicks Street
- Calatrava PATH Station Starts to Take Shape at World Trade Center (NYT)
- Summer Play Street Season Starts at 50 Locations Citywide (News)
- Liu: Cemusa Leaving Hundreds of Bus Shelters Under-Maintained (Post)
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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