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March 2, 2012
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Source: NY TimesProsecutors said it was unclear how many times the Ngs had executed their hidden-camera cheating ploy, but they noted that more than 700 people associated with N&Y had taken the commercial license test since the beginning of 2010. One of those customers was a driver who was behind the wheel of a bus that crashed in Virginia last year, killing four people and injuring dozens.
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Source: Runnin' Scared / Village VoiceThe MTA will increase fares again in 2013 -- meaning that riders will be hit with the fourth such fee hike since 2007.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityPurportedly busting myths about Tappan Zee transit, the press release actually puts forward a slew of obfuscations and untruths about the project. It’s an aggressive effort to obscure the state’s very real march backwards on sustainable transportation in Rockland and Westchester Counties.
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Source: Capital New YorkPatrick Foye, Governor Andrew Cuomo's pick to serve as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, defended a governor's right to cut funding for mass transit as he sees fit, saying, "Governors unfortunately have to make tough fiscal and policy choices."
March 1, 2012
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Source: NY Times
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Source: Capital New YorkThree Occupy Wall Street protestors joined union workers at Wednesday's morning's M.T.A. board meeting, urging the cash-strapped authority that oversees New York City mass transit to tap into a $500 million retiree fund in order to restore service cuts, rehire laid-off workers and underwrite wage hikes.
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Source: Transportation NationIf Rockland and Westchester Counties want mass transit over the new Tappan Zee Bridge, they can pay for it. That seems to be the message behind a strongly-worded email just sent out by the New York State Thruway Authority. The email comes a day after a packed public hearing in Nyack in which dozens of members of the public voiced their support for transit over the new Tappan Zee Bridge.
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Source: Transportation NationThe bill reauthorizes the Highway Trust Fund into mid-2013, and also reconnects federal transit funding to the trust fund. Disconnecting the two proved contentious in the 5-year bill and caused several Republicans in transit-heavy districts to revolt.
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Source: The Journal NewsTARRYTOWN — Westchester Bee-Line buses will be running today after the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and Liberty Lines, operators of the Bee-Line bus service, agreed to continue talking past Wednesday's midnight strike deadline.
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Source: AFL-CIOOur redesigned site puts union members front and center and offers many new features that will make it easier to take action for working families and build a vibrant online community.
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Source: NY TimesThe elites’ elite gathered on Wednesday, as it does each month. That would be the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which earns this lofty appellation because people who determine what happens each day to the elites must surely be deemed even more elite. And who are those elites, plural? Subway riders, of course.
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Source: Transportation NationThat was the feeling in a packed community room in Nyack, where Rockland County residents turned out in droves for the first public hearing on the bridge project since New York State released its massive environmental impact statement last month.
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Source: ReutersInvestment banker Felix Rohatyn, who helped rescue New York City from its mid-1970s financial crisis, has agreed to sit on the board of New York State's $25 billion infrastructure bank, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.
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Source: NY Daily NewsIt will never be smooth sailing across the 468-station subway system on weekends because there are so many repairs to be made, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said Wednesday.o be made, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said Wednesday.
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Source: NY TimesFROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winner-take-all plutocracy.
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Source: NY TimesWith no clear end to tensions with Iran and Syria and rising demand from countries like China, gas prices are already at record highs for the winter months — averaging $4.32 in California and $3.73 a gallon nationally on Wednesday, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. As summer approaches, demand for gasoline rises, typically pushing prices up around 20 cents a gallon.
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Source: NY TimesTwo people were hit by trains at the 72nd Street subway station in unrelated episodes Wednesday morning. One of them, believed to be a suicide, died. Several transit officials said they could not recall another time when two people were hit in the same station on the same day.
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Source: NY PostMayor Bloomberg hinted yesterday that state legislators who support cutting pension benefits for future government workers could benefit from his deep pockets.
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Source: am New YorkTransit union members, straphangers and Occupy Wall Street protesters angrily confronted the MTA board Wednesday morning, demanding that the agency restore service cuts made in 2010 and hire back laid-off workers.
February 29, 2012
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Source: DNAinfo.comA man was struck by a train and seriously hurt at the 72nd Street and Broadway subway station early Wednesday, forcing delays in the middle the morning rush hour, officials said.
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