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February 28, 2012
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Source: POLITICO[A]fter more than 800 days of stopgaps, an impending deadline and a series of delays in the Senate and House, local politicians and transportation officials across the country are grabbing the popcorn. They just don’t know yet whether they are watching a horror flick or a coming-of-age film.
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Source: Transportation NationThe MTA’s Fastrack closures inconvenience thousands of passengers. At a monthly NYC MTA Transit Committee meeting Monday, Board member Andrew Albert complained that during the last FastTrack, some Number 3 subway line riders endured interruptions even though crews did no maintenance there. “Why was it necessary to completely suspend the number three line, relegating those passengers on the Upper Lenox line to second class status and have to ride buses?” asked Albert.
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Source: AFL-CIO NOW BLOGAs states like Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, and New York are looking to raise the minimum wage, they are meeting opposition from well-funded political groups who seek to increase corporate profit. Despite the swath of misinformation painting the minimum wage is a “job killer,” John Stoher of The American Prospect points out that the minimum wage is not even growing at the speed of inflation.
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Source: NY PostLocal bus ridership plummeted by 4 percent on the average weekday in 2011 from the year prior, while express bus customers dropped by 2 percent, according to the MTA’s latest figures. Those numbers have been on a downward tumble since massive bus service cuts were enacted in 2010.
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Source: NY PostThe number of vehicles using MTA bridges and tunnels has plummeted over the past five years — but revenues have increased following three crushing toll hikes.
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Source: am New YorkAfter Police Commissioner Ray Kelly added more than 240 transit cops in January, the agency has been approving extra overtime for the underground officers, NYPD transit bureau chief Joseph Fox told the MTA's transit committee yesterday.
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Source: MetroWhile the average weekday ridership in 2011 on the subway rose 2.5 percent from 2010, bus ridership is on the decline. The average weekday local bus ridership in 2011 decreased by 4.3 percent and express bus ridership sank 2.2 percent.
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Source: NY1Subway riders are encountering overnight service changes this week as the Sixth Avenue subway lines undergo repairs through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's "Fastrack" program.
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Source: MetroThe subway crooks simply can’t be stopped: New statistics revealed by the MTA show that the number of major felonies committed every day underground jumped 29 percent since last year.
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Source: CBS New York / APOfficials say commuters at the terminal’s north wing were told to leave after smoke billowed through the building blocks from Times Square.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal-NewsJust four hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the New York Conference of Mayors that the current public pension system would “bankrupt the state,” Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli offered a passionate rebuttal.
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Source: am New YorkCharles Moerdler suggested during a transit committee hearing Monday that the MTA should use smaller buses where demand is lower and give commuters a break if they use the bus during off-peak hours.
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Source: Mobilizing the RegionFour months after the fast-tracking of the Tappan Zee project, the public will have an opportunity to testify about New York State’s plan to replace the bridge.
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Source: NY Daily NewsPolice have caught more robbers and iPhone-snatching pickpockets with ramped-up enforcement in the subway, police brass said Monday.
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Source: APA New Jersey Senate panel has advanced a bill that would end the free tolls, sports tickets and other perks that have sometimes been given to commissioners and staff with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
February 27, 2012
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Source: Journal-NewsThe drivers and mechanics of Westchester’s Bee-Line bus system voted Sunday to allow negotiators to call a strike if talks with the transit system’s operators don’t improve by Wednesday’s deadline.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA man survived after being shoved to Times Sq. station tracks; man on tracks at Spring St. was hit and killed by train
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Source: NY ObserverThe MTA is going beyond the call (literally as phone calls and angry messages are filling up their inboxes) of duty to ensure that residents on the Upper East Side are getting a good night’s sleep.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe 5.4 million weekend riders last year — the sum of the averages of Saturday and Sunday tallies — nearly topped the previous combined average high of 5.6 million logged in 1947, according to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority study.
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Source: The Poughkeepsie JournalThe next destination: a pair of public hearings this week in Rockland and Westchester counties on an environmental study that found no major barriers to building a new two-span, eight-lane bridge that would be double the width of the existing span and cost about $5.2 billion.
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