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March 16, 2012
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Source: Crain'sStepping up their campaign to improve working conditions, workers and organizers will take aim at a car-wash chain that's been in trouble before.
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Source: NY Daily NewsTechnoDyne chiefs accused of funneling $54 million to India and wiring millions in kickbacks to contractor as cost of city program went through the roof
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Source: The Journal NewsThe cost of the new Tappan Zee Bridge and how much travelers might have to pay to cross it won’t be known until this summer at the earliest, the executive director of the New York State Thruway Authority said Thursday.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignAs legislators work to negotiate between three separate visions for New York’s 2012-13 budget—Governor Cuomo’s, the Senate’s, and the Assembly’s—transit funding has assumed its usual place as a political football. Meanwhile, across the state, riders, transit agencies, manufacturers, and construction workers nervously look on.
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Source: NY Daily NewsLawmakers are urging the Long Island Rail Road to reopen a long-shuttered station in Elmhurst to accommodate the area’s burgeoning population.
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Source: Metropolis - WSJThe New Jersey Department of Transportation will conduct an inventory of the equipment problems, with a focus rail lines in the Northeast Corridor, a spokesman said Thursday. NJ Transit pays $100 million a year to use the Amtrak-owned rail lines and make some improvements.
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Source: NY Daily NewsTWO MTA employees were arrested Thursday morning in separate incidents for getting into fistfights while on duty, transit and police sources said.
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Source: Labor PressWhile taking pains to emphasize his friendly comradeship with American unionists, RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, speaking a a left labor forum on Wednesday night, had an edgy message for his colleagues on this side of the pond. In some ways, his message of organize – organize -- organize was the same as labor leaders hear from the AFL-CIO every day. In other ways, it was radically different.
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Source: WNYCUnions were furious, using a pre-planned rally to express their anger, saying the new benefit tier will reduce pensions by as much 40 percent for future state workers. Mary Sullivan, a vice president with the Civil Service Employees Association, as recorded music blared “we’re not gonna take it.”
March 15, 2012
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Source: NY TimesOfficials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority were trying on Wednesday to determine to what extent an escalator that they had hoped to replace at a Long Island Rail Road station may have caused the death of an 88-year-old woman.
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Source: NY PostThe Senate yesterday passed a $109 billion transportation bill that would prevent the slashing of $1 billion in New York City metro-transit money, and even result in a 13 percent increase.
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Source: Transportation NationYears late, and much smaller than once envisioned, the Senate has passed its version of a two-year $109 billion transportation bill by a wide, bi-partisan majority.
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Source: APThe Senate voted Wednesday to overhaul transportation programs and keep aid flowing to thousands of construction projects while strengthening highway and auto safety.
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Source: Star-LedgerNJ Transit just had the best three-month stretch of train on-time performance in the history of the agency.
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Source: NY TimesA.F.L.-C.I.O. officials on Wednesday denounced the voter identification laws enacted in a dozen states and vowed to mount their biggest voter registration and protection efforts ever to counter these laws, which they said could disenfranchise millions of voters.
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Source: WSJThe art of New York's transit system is experienced fleetingly: colored glass, miniature bronze men, the image of a futuristic car zooming across a wall. Travelers, when they emerge, might ask: What was that again? Now the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is ready to answer.
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Source: NY PostProsecutors want accused subway sex fiend Michael Torres to spend at least the next 15 years in jail. He pleaded not guilty yesterday to a terrifying attack on a woman, who was a random stranger, on an escalator at the Bowery station just after midnight Feb. 8.
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Source: NY Daily NewsIn a city where Boss Tweed, Mayor Jimmy Walker, and Stanley Friedman all brazenly pilfered public money during eras gone by, no government scandal compares to the size and scope of CityTime.
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Source: ABC 7 Eyewitness NewsThe man was struck by a 6 train in the tunnel between the Bleecker and Spring Street Stations around 7 p.m.
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Source: Wall Street JournalThe art of New York's transit system is experienced fleetingly: colored glass, miniature bronze men, the image of a futuristic car zooming across a wall. Travelers, when they emerge, might ask: What was that again? Now the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is ready to answer.
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