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  • Source: Mocker Blog / WPIX
      

    The MTA says it can save 70% by taking care of this project in house (than going with one of the outside vendors that other cities use). [There is] no estimate on when NYC will see real-time bus and subway info system wide. There are subway countdown clocks at about 100 stations.

  • Source: Transportation Nation
    The budget calls for a $556 billion six-year transportation bill, a 60 percent increase–when adjusted for inflation–over the last bill, which expired three years ago . That’s even more than the roughly $500 billion transportation bill proposed and stalled during the previous congress.

    See reactions: Transportation Sec'y Ray LaHood, American Public Transportation Association, US PIRG, House GOP

  • Source: City Room - NY Times
    Off the Rails: The peeves and habits of riders who frequent one of New York's more famous modes of mass transit emerged last week.
  • Source: NY Post
    A heroic straphanger knifed by alleged Brooklyn madman Maksim Gelman defiantly stood up to his attacker before helping cops take him down.
  • Source: Second Avenue Sagas
    At the end of last week, the MTA, the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce and various elected officials gathered on the Upper East Side to… unveil the model block between East 92nd and East 93rd Streets with more changes to come throughout the construction zone over the next few months.
  • Source: City Room - NY Times
    A visitor in the city with a guitar and suitcase, I boarded the M60 bus at 125th Street. “How much to the last stop?” I asked. The driver didn’t answer. I asked again. He finally said, “Two-twenty-five.”