Media Links - August 27, 2010

NYC Transit operations

• MTA's Robotrains prove to have a mind of their own as some go rogue on L line (NY DAILY NEWS)

MTA cutbacks, budget and funding

• LIRR’s Give & Take (Anton News Op/Ed)

Other MTA

• Theater Company Avoids Eviction in Deal With M.T.A. (New York Times)

TWU international and other locals

• American Mechanics Shoot Down Tentative Agreement, Move Closer to Strike (BNET)

Safety and health

• [Seattle] Metro bus drivers don't want Plexiglas barriers  (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

Transit workers and systems outside metro NY

• [Washington DC] New cameras to catch Metrobus drivers' mistakes (Washington Post)
• [Boston] Facelift helps distinguish T radios from cellphones (Boston Globe)

Transit policy

• If a Train Breaks Down and No One in the Capitol Hears It… (Mobilizing the Region)

NY public-sector workers

• The public workers you support (NY POST Op/Ed)
•  [Replies] Thank public workers -- they carry the load (NY POST letters)

Metro NY private-sector workers

• Labor Says Mott's Apples Are Rotten to the Core (Huffington Post)

National politics and economics

• Furor over mosque near Ground Zero could force GOP to help pass Zadroga 9/11 health bill (NY DAILY NEWS)