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March 28, 2011
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Source: Second Avenue SagasJim Brennan, chair of the Assembly’s Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, vowed to protect the MTA’s budget.
March 25, 2011
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Source: Hofstra ChronicleFor many in the crowd at Wednesday's MTA public hearing, cutting Nassau County's access to Long Island Bus services threatens to make their weekday commute an added headache with limited mass transit.
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Source: City Room / NY TimesTaking Questions: Steven Greenhouse, the labor and workplace correspondent for The Times, responded to your questions about the evolution of the nation's labor laws and labor unions since the Triangle fire 100 years ago.
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Source: NY PostTwo Queens school bus drivers were arrested today for fraudulently obtaining licenses as part of a state crackdown following a bus crash two weeks ago that killed 15 people, authorities said.
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Source: NY Daily NewsLess than a week before Opening Day, angry bondholders have forced the nearly bankrupt operator of the Yankee Stadium garages to give up some control - and maybe even level some garages.
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Source: NY TimesThe official number of New Yorkers, 8,175,133, is a census record, but only 166,000 more people than in 2000.
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Source: Transportation NationMetroAccess is operated by the private company MV Transportation, which is one of Emeka Moneme’s clients at the lobbying firm where he now works. Moneme is a former senior Metro executive turned lobbyist.
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Source: City Room / NY TimesOne hundred years ago today, 146 workers at the Triangle Waist Factory in Greenwich Village were killed in a fire that changed history. Few details of their lives are known, and some of their descendants snatch at scraps of information or try to read clues to biography and character in a sepia-toned photograph that has been passed down to them. Others try to fill in the blanks with their own musings or educated guesses.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasFew projects symbolize the frustration of major public works in New York City quite like the Fulton Street Transit Center. Planned as a post-9/11 revitalization project for Lower Manhattan, the Transit Center was originally supposed to be completed by 2007, but when federal funds dried up in the mid-2000s, the project languished. It will be finished in 2014 and at a cost of $1.4 billion, nearly twice as much as originally projected.
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Source: Gotham GazetteA millionaires tax would serve New York's neediest -- not the greediest, who helped get us into today's fiscal mess, writes Kenneth Brynian of the state Public Employees Federation.
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Source: AP / WCBS 2A New York City subway train severed a man’s leg and removed part of his arm as he fled onto tracks to escape police, authorities said Thursday.
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Source: Asbury Park PressA $3.5 billion budget that relies on leveraging Turnpike Authority and Port Authority funds earmarked for the now canceled Hudson River tunnel project was introduced by state transportation officials Thursday. The fiscal year 2012 transportation capital plan makes use of Gov. Chris Christie's plan to finance the state Transportation Trust Fund for the next five years, using the tunnel money as a revenue source in lieu of increasing the state gasoline tax or other fees.
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Source: Transportation NationAn emotional NYC MTA hearing went well into the night last night in Hempstead. The transit authority is considering cutting service for some 16,000 Long Island Bus riders beginning this summer. And the financially troubled Nassau County government says it wants to privatize all bus service.
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Source: Brooklyn Daily EagleThe building in question is the New York City Transit Authority-owned 370 Jay St., a large 400,000-square-foot structure that the partnership has said should be sold and developed as office space, according to Joe Chan, DBP president. “This building would be perfect for the city’s applied sciences campus,” he told the Eagle.
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Source:Despite hail and freezing rain, over 500 people came to last night's hearing on the future of Long Island Bus, held at Hofstra University's Adams Playhouse.
March 24, 2011
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Source: amNYBon appetit, straphangers.
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Source: WNYCThe future of the Long Island Bus line is the subject of a public hearing at Hofstra University Wednesday afternoon. The Metropolitan Transit Authority said the county needs to pay an additional $24 million a year to keep the bus line going. But county officials, facing a $176 million budget gap, have proposed privatizing the service instead.
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Source: Gotham Gazette
The City Council is voting on a home rule message today that would give Albany the authority to pass legislation to require the regulation of intercity buses.
The move is an indication that the legislation will be approved in Albany.
The bill, introduced in Albany in February by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, would require discount buses register with the city. It would affect the types of discount buses involved in recent fatal accidents in New Jersey and in the Bronx. Supporters say it would give city officials a better indication of who is operating what vehicles, from where and when.
Currently, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is charged with monitoring safety conditions on these vehicles. Council officials said the bill would not regulate safety and would not supersede federal authority.
The City Council must approve a home rule message before the legislation can move in Albany.
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Source: NY1Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said a plan to send text messages that would alert riders when the next bus is arriving will become a reality in Staten Island by the end of the year.
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