Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:00 AM EDT on July 27, 2012
- Eights Blocks of ACP Blvd. to Get Safety Upgrade With or Without Julius Tajiddin’s OK (News)
- Riders and Politicians Agree: Bike-Share Is Great, But They’d Like a Little Info on Start Date (NYT)
- One in Four Staten Island Bus Riders Have Used Real-Time Transit Info (DNAinfo)
- PATH Ridership Is Busting Through Records (The Record)
- Metro-North Expects Ridership Records Every Year Through 2016 (LoHud)
- Donohue: Give a Discount for Reusing MetroCard, Not a Penalty For Buying New One (News)
- Soho’s Sean Sweeney: Bike-Share Will Turn NYC Into Ho Chi Minh City (Villager)
- De Blasio Sues Mayor to Protest Rising Fines, Including Parking Tickets and Moving Violations (NYT)
- Why Transpo-Minded Aliens Would Think Staten Island Is the Center of the World (Transpo Nation)
- (Gentrified) Brooklyn’s Seven Scariest Bike Lanes (Bklyn Paper)
- The MTA Keeps Churning Out Data, and People Keep Mapping It (Atlantic Cities)
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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