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February 17, 2011
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Source: WNBC 4Commuters attended a meeting Wednesday night in Stamford to tell Metro North and transportation officials what they thought about the new reductions.
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February 16, 2011
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe two stations were deemed in need of repair after bricks fell from one landmark station ceiling in August 2009.
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Source: NY1She received a letter from Access-A-Ride stating she was no longer eligible to use it's service at all, effective immediately.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA Greenpoint waterfront park has yet to be built - six years after city officials promised it would be. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has refused to move from a parking lot slated to be turned into green space on Commercial St.
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Source: Streetsblog
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Transit Oriented Development from Streetfilms on Vimeo.
For the first chapter in Streetfilms’ Moving Beyond the Automobile series, we’re taking a look at transit-oriented development, more commonly known by the acronym TOD.
Streetfilms headquarters is a short train ride from some great TOD success stories taking shape along a stretch of New Jersey’s Hudson River coast. Across the river from NYC, transit-oriented development has been booming for the last two decades, and transportation options are as diverse as you can get. The Hudson-Bergen light-rail, multiple ferry lines, PATH, NJ Transit commuter trains, and buses provide plentiful service, while in some areas car ownership is as low as 40 to 45 percent.
This series is made possible by funding from The Oram Foundation’s Fund for The Environment & Urban Life.
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Source: Capital NYSubway planners present the No. 7 extension, with room for improvement.
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Source: Wall Street JournalCrucial details are missing from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, casting uncertainty over his fiscal agenda, according to a new analysis of his spending plan by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
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Source: Long Island PressDozens of Long Island Bus employees rallied in Mineola on Monday to deliver a Valentine’s Day message to Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, who has proposed privatizing the county bus system.
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Source: SI AdvanceTRENTON, N.J. -- Every member of New Jersey's congressional delegation has signed a letter supporting Gov. Chris Christie's efforts to fight a $271 million federal bill sent to the state after the governor scrapped plans for a Hudson River train.
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Source: NY PostMore riders hopped on the subways than buses in 2010 -- but either way, it was a long ride for straphangers who endured the worst service cuts in decades. Total ridership underground was the second-highest since 1950, at 1.6 billion -- that's 1.5 percent, or 24 million...
See more: Second Avenue Sagas
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Source: NY Daily NEwsForget the President's budget plan for next year - the Republican scheme for 2011 threatens to slash more than $452 million from New York City, city officials estimate.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesTestimony from the schools chancellor against using seniority in layoff decisions has a familiar ring.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityIn her State of the City address this afternoon, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn laid out her priorities for the year ahead. Her speech focused on four issue areas: balancing the city budget, creating jobs, preserving affordable housing and parking.
See more: NY Times, Gotham Gazette, Transportation Nation
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityThree bills to open up information about traffic and street safety to the public cleared the City Council’s transportation committee unanimously today. Two of the bills, in particular, should provide New Yorkers with a much clearer picture of what’s happening on their streets and empower them to fight for increased safety.
February 15, 2011
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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.
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Source: Transportation NationThe 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
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Source: City Room - NY TimesOff the Rails: The peeves and habits of riders who frequent one of New York's more famous modes of mass transit emerged last week.
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Source: NY PostA heroic straphanger knifed by alleged Brooklyn madman Maksim Gelman defiantly stood up to his attacker before helping cops take him down.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasAt 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.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesA 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.”