What we're reading this week

Image above: Cardboard apartment, via Andere Achterhuizen on Flickr

This is what we're reading this week on the web:

• New Yorkers are ditching buses for subways (link)
• Middle East politics: now arriving at a station near you? (link)
• Afghan girls, forbidden from riding bikes, are skateboarding instead. (link)
• A MetroCard redesign we're excited about (link)
• The bright lights of NYC may dim (link)
• Cortland St. station on 1 line receives a long overdue facelift  (link)

Compiled by Sean Lewin, research assistant.