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February 25, 2011
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Source: WABC 7
Taxi drivers who turn down passengers because of their destination will soon face larger fines.
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Source:Forty sanitation workers staged a work slowdown Thursday protesting work conditions at the West 57th Street facility, saying that while they work at a dump, they don’t have to work in it.
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Source: Transit WireNJ TRANSIT announced plans for an online scorecard to present information about on-time performance, spending, finances, and customer satisfaction.
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Source: NY PostBrother, can you spare $180 million? The chronically over-budget transportation hub that's part of the massive Ground Zero rebuild will eat into even more taxpayer dollars than expected -- for the second time. Port Authority officials yesterday hiked the cost of the ornate transit center -- which will house...
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Source: ABC 7Next time you drop some change into a parking meter, the money could very well end up in the hands of a private company.
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Source: WNBC 4
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Source: National Public RadioJoseph Slater, a University of Toledo law professor, talks to Steve Inskeep about the history of government employees' unions, and the background of the current union protests in Wisconsin. Slater is the author of Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law and the State.
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Source: NY Daily News
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Source: WNYCThe MTA and New York Police Department have differing accounts of how they coordinated efforts to capture accused stabber Maksim Gelman on a subway train earlier this month.
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Source: Tri-State Transportation CampaignThe MTA’s open-road tolling efforts are cruising along so far. This week, the agency released data from the first month after gates were removed from the toll booths at the Henry Hudson Bridge connecting Manhattan and the Bronx.
February 24, 2011
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Source: WPIX 11
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Source: Second Avenue SagasWith ARC off the table and its replacement years or even decades away, New Jersey Transit officials are trying to deliver on that one-seat promise without a new tunnel. Earlier this week, NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein pledged that he would work to make the one-seat ride a reality along the Raritan Valley and North Jersey Coast Lines.
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Source: NY TimesPublic interest groups urged Jeffrey A. Sachs, who is helping Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on health care policy, to identify the clients of his private consulting business.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
MTA Admits Subway Escalator Program Is Broken: MyFoxNY.com
Jay Walder, the Chairman of the MTA, today acknowledged that the authority's present program fixing subway escalators and elevators is not working.
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Source: NY PostIt's a long, hard slog for commuters outside Manhattan -- and it's only getting worse. A new report shows that straphangers trying to get to work between the outer boroughs face longer wait times and longer travel times than ever before.
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Source: WABC 7
The NYPD released surveillance video of a man wanted for pushing a female MTA worker onto the subway tracks.
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Source: Patch - NanuetRockland wants tax scrapped, better service from MTA and $220M in damages.
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Source: NY PostAbout 100 New York union leaders and Democratic politicians staged a noisy City Hall rally yesterday in support of Wisconsin workers.
February 23, 2011
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Source: AFL-CIO Blog
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.Wisconsin’s workers already have agreed to Walker’s proposals on wages and benefits, but he refuses to negotiate or compromise and is continuing to insist on stripping them of their bargaining rights. It’s time for lawmakers to work across party lines, come to the table and get Wisconsin moving forward again.That is why around the state community members are joining together with workers and concerned citizens to protect our middle class.
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Source: NY1The new Goethals Bridge will be built by a private company and paid off by the Port Authority over 30 years, marking the first time in more than a century that a city bridge has been built by the private sector.
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