Today’s Headlines
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By
Noah Kazis
9:02 AM EDT on July 30, 2012
- Liu Promises to Block Efforts to Privatize Metered Parking, “The Lifeblood of Our Neighborhoods” (News)
- Only Three of Four Teams Bid on Tappan Zee Bridge, Submit 750,000 Pages of Documents (LoHud)
- Gelinas: Cuomo More Focused on Funding New Tappan Zee Bridge Than Shaky MTA Budget (Post)
- Donohue: If Legislators Want to Take Credit For MTA Service, Show Us the Money (News)
- Why Are Green Transpo Changes the Only Ones Worth Asking Blind New Yorkers About? (NYT)
- Bike-Share Delay Lets Daily News Revive Secretive DOT Narrative
- Will Bike-Share Delay Cost Private Operator Alta? (WSJ)
- To Calm Glendale Traffic With Stop Signs or Split One-Ways? DOT and CB Debate (News)
- Bike Thefts Quadruple in Williamsburg and Greenpoint (DNAinfo)
- Watch an SUV Driver Play Traffic Cop to Force Her Way Into Lincoln Tunnel Faster (Animal NY)
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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