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March 6, 2012
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Source: ReutersA failed attempt by the state's Republican governor to limit collective bargaining rights for public unions last year altered the political landscape in this battleground state.
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Source: Transportation NationSad news for those of us who’ve pounded the NY MTA for information over the last five years — Jeremy Soffin, relatively newly married and the father of a newborn, will be leaving as the agency’s chief spokesman.
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Source: Times Herald-Record"How high is the toll going to be?" is the question that said it all at last week's public hearings on the New York State Thruway Authority's plans to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge.
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Source: BloombergAbout one in four of the pilots and rail workers reported that sleepiness affects their job performance at least once a week, compared with one in six non-transportation workers, according to the survey by the National Sleep Foundation.
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Source: PoliticoNobody is happy with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new rule governing how long truckers can drive and when they must rest.
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Source: Rockland County TimesUpon hearing news that Rockland County might seek to withdraw from the MTA if it can form a partnership for a new transit authority with Orange County, County Executive Edward Diana said he is not ready to consider withdrawing Orange County from the regional authority.
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Source: CBS New YorkA Brooklyn cancer survivor with bad feet and a degenerative back is locked in a battle with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over its Access-A-Ride program.
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Source: Fox New York
Residents: Subway Work Causing Cracks in Building: MyFoxNY.com
Pat Wischan-Rosen said she cringes thinking about the damage that has been done to her apartment on the Upper East Side from the blasting going on underground for the MTA's Second Avenue subway. She lives on the 16th floor and her apartment at East 69th Street overlooks the project. There are cracks in the crown molding and the walls all over her apartment.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson
The Civil Service Employees Association is blanketing the state with ads against the new pension tier proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Tier 6 would be less generous than other tiers. It would apply only to new employees, who would have to contribute more toward their pension than current public employees do. The state’s largest union has the spots running every major television and radio market in New York.
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Source: The Hill's Transportation ReportThe House could take up the Senate’s version of a transportation reauthorization bill rather than try to push through one of its own, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday.
March 5, 2012
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Source: NY Daily NewsWoman has vowed to fight a $50 summons for resting her injured leg on a seat in a nearly empty subway car
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Source: Transportation NationNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo has promised that a proposed new casino/convention center in Queens wouldn’t cost anything to the NY MTA. But at a Crain’s Breakfast forum this week, an executive for the development firm set to build the complex seemed to carve out a loophole — one caused by the borough’s own transit needs.
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Source: Transportation NationRyan Lynch with the advocacy group Tri-State Transportation Campaign said the service cuts will be a hardship. “Service will be reduced one way or the other, on 60-percent of the entire system. That means some people may lose entire service on Saturdays or midday service.
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Source: PoliticoWith long-term transportation bills stalled in the House and Senate, there is increased recognition that a ninth extension of a law that originally expired in 2009 is inevitable. So what if the presumably simple task of passing a stopgap becomes another partisan fight and Congress fails?
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Source: New York Daily NewsGov. Cuomo’s budget team pushed the state teachers retirement system into scrapping a critical review of his pension reform plan, the Daily News has learned. A formal fiscal analysis sent to Cuomo's budget office on Jan. 31 by the organization that administers the pension system for teachers and school administrators included a section slugged "legal concerns." It raised constitutionality questions about Cuomo’s plan to hike employee contribution rates. Two days later, after a call from Cuomo aides, a revised fiscal note was sent--without the legal concern.
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Source: Fox New YorkThe number of cancer-stricken New York Police Department (NYPD) employees who worked at Ground Zero after the 9/11 terror attacks is eight percent higher than originally thought.
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Source: NY PostThe number of cancer-stricken NYPD employees who worked at Ground Zero is 8 percent higher than originally thought, The Post has learned.
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Source: New York Daily NewsGov. Cuomo is scheduled to have a pow-wow with a coalition of labor leaders on Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, including his push for pension reform, sources said. Reps from the AFL-CIO, the Civil Service Employees Association, Public Employees Federation and other unions are expected at the meeting.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThe massive granite barricades ringing the Long Island Rail Road’s Atlantic Terminal will be ripped out later this year — not starting last month like the MTA originally said.
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Source: The Bond BuyerOn Wednesday, the MTA, which runs the largest transit system in North America, will issue $400 million of transportation revenue bonds. The sale, through competitive bid, will consist of $150 million in three equal subseries of Series A floating-rate notes and $250 million in Series B fixed-rate notes.
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