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February 15, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsPete Donohue: Commuting by rickshaw would be faster than the subway under a Bronx assemblyman's proposal to increase straphanger safety.
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Source: WSJThe state doesn't have enough anywhere near enough money to replace the antiquated Tappan Zee Bridge, which carries 140,000 vehicles across the Hudson River every day.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesIn non-legalese: the big red buses you see everywhere wanted to team up with the big blue ones you see everywhere.
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Source: Wall Street JournalNew Jersey's Senate president will propose an overhaul to the way the state's public workers pay for health care, requiring higher-paid employees to spend more for coverage.
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February 11, 2011
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Source: NY PostA 76-year-old Bronx man was killed by a city bus making a turn yesterday. Police believe the driver, who briefly continued on, didn't realize he'd hit the man on Castle Hill Avenue at 6:55 p.m. No charges were filed.
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Source: AFL-CIO NOW BlogEach community with an NFL team stands to lose as much as $160 million if the team owners force a lockout next season. If the owners get away with the lockout, it could cost 150,000 jobs nationwide and have a ripple effect on how other workers across the country are treated, according to people who labor on the field and in the stadiums.
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Source: NY Daily NewsOne of the six accused scammers in the CityTime case pleaded guilty this week, one has died, and a seventh has been arrested.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperPark Slopers will no longer have to cross Fourth Avenue to get to the F-train station that bears the name of the scary boulevard.
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Source: Connecticut PostMetro-North President Howard Permut said he and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chief Executive Officer Jay Walder spoke with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in his Hartford office about the backlog of damaged M-2, M-4 and M-6 cars and how the lack of shop space at the New Haven railyard and Stamford maintenance facility has slowed repairs.
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Source: NY ObserverTurns out that the Snowpocalypse was even worse than anyone thought: with the estimated bill for cleanup coming to tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are imploring President Obama to approve New York State's Disaster Declaration request and allow the city to receive federal aid.
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Source: DNAinfo.comResidents at a meeting said problems at the station have been growing since the MTA removed the station agent last summer, when the transit authority laid off hundreds of workers.
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Source: Freakonomics / NY Times"[I]n the New York City subway, where noise pollution abounds and where one particular noise is downright painful. You’ll hear it in the podcast, and we talk about it with Pete Foley, a longtime “revenue equipment maintainer” with the Metropolitan Transit Authority. He admits that the entry/exit setup in the subway is way sub-optimal, producing lots of needless noise from bleating alarms."
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Source: NY PostMerchants whose cash flows have been derailed by the messy Second Avenue subway project are finally getting some love -- from the MTA. The agency has finished sprucing up one of the project's major above-ground sites, between East 92nd and East 93rd streets
February 10, 2011
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Source: NY Times (may require registration)"John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents the city’s transit workers, and Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said they would urge their pension funds’ trustees to sell holdings in Chase if the bank did not allow more people to adjust their mortgages."
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Source: NY TimesA top credit-rating firm lowered New Jersey’s bond rating on Wednesday, citing ballooning pension and other costs.
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Source: Epoch Times“The situation is dire,” wrote Metro-North President Howard Permut in a letter to the New Haven Line customers. About 70 percent of the cars on the line are over 40 years old. The infrastructure and movable bridges are close to a century old. Like an old man on a winter day, the Metro-North system has stiff joints and simply cannot run like it did in its hey day.
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Source: NY TimesInstead of trying to pressure Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, labor is attacking Wall Street as the real budget villain.
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Source: NY PostThe teachers union is arguing that a lower-court judge failed to use her full discretion when she ruled that the city must release internal performance ratings for teachers with their names attached.
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Source: NY1"For almost 18 years, photos of gold-painted transit workers' tools have lined the 14th Street passage connecting Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Then one day ln January, a web-surfing friend told the artist she'd better look online to see what had happened to her work."
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