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March 21, 2012
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Source: Transportation NationPeople with a stake in the billions of dollars worth of highway funds and gas taxes may have breathed a temporary sigh of relief a few hours ago when Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica said the GOP would opt for a temporary extension next week.
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Source: CBS New YorkIt was St. Patrick’s Day and NYPD Sgt. Robert Critelli was checking bags at Grand Central when someone ran up yelling about a man on the subway tracks.
March 19, 2012
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Source: NY TimesConsidering the setting, the sound is difficult to place: a song of the wild, evoking, perhaps, a disturbed rooster accompanied by a small chirping bird.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA six-figure subway supervisor spent hours cruising the tri-state area in his BMW, going on shopping sprees and visiting a no-tell motel — all while on duty, sources said.
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Source: NBC New YorkResidents in the neighborhood have long complained about the air quality around the site, but the MTA insists there's no threat to public health.
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Source: amNYA third person struck by a train at the 72nd Street and Broadway subway station in as many weeks has some straphangers asking if the stop is prone to fatal mishaps.
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Source: CBS New YorkIn response, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio set up a web campaign so straphangers can send a message to the MTA. “You can look it up, 5StopFanClub.com,” he said.
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Source: The HillTransportation industry observers are not expecting the House to take up the $109 billion transportation bill passed last week by the Senate before the end of the month, increasing the necessity of a short-term extension, which leaders in both chambers have said they hope to avoid.
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Source: The Bay Citizen (San Francisco, CA)A transportation company responsible for installing defective parts on Chicago's subway cars is the leading candidate to build BART’s $3.4 billion fleet of new train cars, The Bay Citizen has learned.
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Source: Star-Telegram (Ft. Worth, TX)American Airlines has told the National Mediation Board that it does not want to enter into arbitration with the labor unions representing pilots, flight attendants and ground crews.
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Source: The Journal NewsThe state on Friday released its instructions to the four partnerships vying to build the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, another key step in the speeded-up process to begin building the new bridge this year.
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Source: NY PostSeven former Long Island Rail Road workers were busted last year in a massive retirement-fraud scheme, but Manhattan federal prosecutor Justin Weddle said that number may grow when a new indictment is handed up.
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Source: NY1The first round of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Fastrack program is now completed, but the agency is starting it all over again in April.
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Source: NY PostDemocrats have claimed that majority-party Republicans lacked enough senators present in the chamber for a legitimate vote on the bill. Most Senate Democrats had stormed out of the chamber earlier to protest a limit on debate over a separate redistricting bill. But Sen. Daniel Squadron (D-Brooklyn) stayed to argue that the Senate lacked the minimum of 38 senators needed for what he called the budget-related pension bill.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CitySo Skelos says he’s worried about MTA debt. This is rich, because Skelos is basically obstructing the MTA from addressing a situation that he, as much as anyone, helped create. Let’s rewind a bit… After Skelos was appointed to one of four slots on the MTA Capital Program Review Board in 1998, he approved hugely expensive MTA expansion projects, include the multi-billion dollar East Side Access, which mainly benefits Skelos’s Nassau constituents by linking LIRR service directly to Grand Central.
March 16, 2012
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Source: amNYThe campaign focuses on the plight that businesses in Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and Kensington face if those stops are slashed, the public advocate said. Other pols, including Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and state senators Eric Adams and Daniel Squadron, are also on board.
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Source: Capital New YorkIn a letter sent today to M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota, majority leader Dean Skelos says the Senate's move to reduce the authority's budget is rooted in concern about the M.T.A.'s "staggering" debt-load.
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Source: Capital New YorkThe Working Families Party, which is headquartered on Nevins Street and has helped launch the careers of Brooklyn-based politicians like Letitia James and Bill de Blasio, appears to be making a bid for the Brownstone belt with a petition to keep the G train running from Queens all the way to Kensington.
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Source: Transportation NationSenator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) — a longtime booster of a new trans-Hudson rail crossing between New Jersey and New York City — was questioning the secretary at Thursday’s Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Department of Transportation’s budget. Lautenberg asked LaHood: “You’ve looked at this proposal many times. What impact might the Gateway Tunnel project have on mobility and the economy of the Northeast Corridor?”
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Source: PoliticoThe House will not take up the Senate’s transportation bill and its own version won’t hit the floor until mid-April at the earliest, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee aides told industry officials Thursday morning.
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