Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
8:59 AM EDT on July 16, 2012
- MTA Getting Close to Restoring Some Bus Cuts, Extending G Train Permanently (News)
- Traffic Nightmare Doesn’t Materialize After Lane of Hamilton Bridge Closed for Repairs (NYT)
- Two Dead in Bronx Hit-And-Runs: Cyclist David Ellis, 18, and Pedestrian Juan Rivera-Quintana, 42 (NYT)
- City Busts Unlicensed Private Buses Between Chinatown and Flushing (NYT)
- DOT Inspectors Will Enforce Bike Delivery Rules on the Business End (Transpo Nation)
- John Sampson Crashes Into Parked Car With Enough Speed to Damage Two Others (CapTon)
- Nanny on Crutches After Saving 4-Year-Old From Jeep Crashing Into Sidewalk (News)
- Kerry Kennedy Charged With DUI in Highway Crash, Ambien or Seizure Possibly Involved (Gothamist)
- For the Post, Even a Stop Sign Is Too Much of an Imposition on Midtown Traffic
- Times Transpo Beat: Three Articles About How to Get to the Hamptons (1, 2, 3)
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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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