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March 9, 2012
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Source: DNAInfo.comSubway service on the A, C and E lines will be suspended at night from Columbus Circle to Brooklyn starting Monday, the MTA said.
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Source: NY Daily NewsLillian Roberts also takes a swipe at Mayor Bloomberg
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Source: NY Daily NewsOrganizing and invoking their labor rights is the American way
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Source: am New YorkFifteen lines will have reduced service for all or part of the weekend, including continued canceled service on the No. 7 line between Manhattan and Queens. The MTA is running extended Q and 42nd Street Shuttle service to help make up for it.
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Source: Journal-NewsCoast Guard officials say they expect to have within days a salvage plan for the Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, a decommissioned Staten Island ferry that sits partially sunken in the Hudson River off the Newburgh city shoreline.
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Source: WABC 7The train hit a person on the tracks at the Bayport Avenue intersection at 9:15 a.m.
March 8, 2012
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority is looking at more rounds of fare hikes or service cutbacks because of out-of-control pension costs.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNew York officials made a deal with subway and bus riders in 2009: Fares would rise by a maximum of 7.5% every two years; in exchange, riders would be spared future service reductions and transit would be kept in a state of good repair.
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Source: Transportation NationSometime in the fall, many more New York cabs will be wheelchair accessible, and it will be much easier to hail a cab in northern Manhattan, and in the other four boroughs. New York City will also start collecting on what it hopes will be $1 billion in revenue from the new medallions sold.
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Source: Transportation NationAfter weeks of behind-the-scenes brinksmanship, the Senate is finally set to begin casting votes on its highway and infrastructure bill Thursday.
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Source: Transportation NationThe U.S. Department of Transportation confirmed Wednesday that the new deadline is March 30. Previously, the deadline for the public to weigh in had been March 15th.
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Source: Verizon FiOS1 News - Long IslandThe Long Island Bus Riders Unions are addressing the owners of NICE buses on the cutting of bus routes. NICE announced last month that they would cut some of their bus services due to low day ridership. In return, the Riders Union is demanding the documents showing ridership impact data claiming that mid-day and weekend ridership accounts for nearly 25 percent of ridership totals and the cuts will hurt riders.
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Source: NY Daily NewsBy Michael Bloomberg And Steve Bellone: All across New York State, local government budgets have increased dramatically over the past decade. And the single biggest driver of those costs — and the property tax hikes that, in many areas, have paid for them — has been the ballooning cost of pensions.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe MTA has 20 trucks making three to four roundtrips a day to move debris blasted from underground to make way for the Second Avenue subway.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThe Port Authority says it is fighting to keep shipping alive in Red Hook — reversing engines on a plan to relocate the port and make room for hotels and other development on the waterfront.
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Source: NY TimesWhen he was elected in December as the leader of the city’s 25,000 unionized carpenters, Michael Bilello was helping to build the new PATH station at ground zero. After the election, he “put down his tools” — as they say in his trade — and went to Brooks Brothers, where he had once built a staircase, to buy a new suit. “It was the only place I could find with the union label in the pocket,” he said.
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Source: The Daily PelhamThe Pelham Police Department is working with the Metro Transit Authority police after several Pelham residents were victims of identity theft and grand larceny from a skimming device that had been implanted in the Pelham train station ticket machine.
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Source: ForbesStaring across Manhattan’s last untamed strip, the rows of sleek silver commuter trains sliding along the island’s only active rail yard, the Related Companies’ Stephen Ross points to the future. There, flanking the wildly successful High Line elevated park, is where the 56-story South Tower will go. And over there, on the other side of 33rd Street, where massive cranes bisect the sky, will be the new subway entrance.
March 7, 2012
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Source: LaborpressCouncil Member James Vacca, Transportation Committee Chair, took the three-member MTA panel to task on the agency’s proposed fare hikes next year and in 2015 at a hearing yesterday, March 6. Hilary Ring, MTA’s Director of Government Affairs, said that the 7.5 percent fare hikes would generate almost $900 million, but Vacca was bewildered when Ring said that the revenues would go almost exclusively to paying the agency’s workforce pensions and healthcare costs.
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