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August 3, 2011
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Source: CBS New York / 1010 WINS
The incident happened in the Morrisania section around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday when a Bx55 bus, moving southbound on Third Avenue, struck a livery cab and sports car.
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Source: NY PostThe Cortlandt Street subway station, which was seriously damaged on 9/11 and has been closed intermittently over the past decade, will finally reopen in its entirety five days before the 10th
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Source: NY TimesWith the Metropolitan Transportation Authority more than $30 billion in debt, its chairman is bailing instead of pursuing long-term change.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA subway worker claimed he needed time off because his grandma was dying when he really had a date with a jail cell, transit and law enforcement sources said.
August 2, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe NYPD has tapped Assistant Chief Joseph Fox to command the Transit Bureau following the retirement of Chief Raymond Diaz, sources said Friday.
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Source: NY1Dozens of airport construction projects like the demolition of LaGuardia Airport's old traffic control tower have been delayed as Congress has denied the Federal Aviation Administration an extension funding bill, but Senate Democrats reportedly want to introduce a bill to restore FAA funding.
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Source: StreetsblogUnder the normal spending cuts regime (not the nuclear option of the automatic, across-the-board cuts) the Department of Transportation is grouped with all other discretionary spending for cuts. The Highway Trust Fund is not discretionary, since it has its own funding source. Streetsblog has asked Senate staffers if any of this will make it harder for the Finance and EPW Committees to justify spending $12 billion more than trust fund receipts, as spelled out in the Senate transportation bill – even if that $12 billion comes from another budget item and doesn’t add to the deficit. No response yet.
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Source: Albany Watch - Journal-NewsWith the state in the midst of implementing its overhaul of the way educators are evaluated in New York, a proposal from New York State United Teachers, the state’s largest teachers union, has some school officials raising red flags.
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Source: Streetsblog New YorkThe current MTA capital budget is very bad news for transit riders, who are being asked to shoulder $7 billion in debt all on their own. Where can the 8 million daily riders who count on the MTA turn for help?
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Source: Streetsblog New YorkHow much worse will traffic congestion get if transit deteriorates? A lot, potentially. Consider a combination of higher fares and reduced service sufficient to bring about a 5 percent decline in subway use, so that weekday trips by subway to the Manhattan Central Business District, currently averaging 2,160,000 a day, shrink by 110,000. My modeling suggests that while a majority of those trips will relocate or simply disappear, an estimated 35,000 of them will continue to be made, in cars.
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Source: NY PostA Second Avenue Subway hardhat with a velvety voice is helping to soothe the headaches of construction-weary Upper East Siders.
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Source: NY Daily NewsFrom health care to security and transportation, the debt ceiling deal threatens long-term pain for New York City, which stands to lose billions in federal aid.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA new entrance to the Fulton Street subway station — which will eventually be part of a completely renovated transit center, complete with air conditioning — opened on a sweltering Monday afternoon.
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Source: Crain's New YorkBoosters say Flushing-Main St. traffic warrants an upgrade.
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Source: ABC New YorkService remains suspended on the Montauk branch, while there are residual delays on the Babylon branch after service was restored.
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Source: WNYCFederal health officials have announced new regulations that would require insurers to cover a range of preventive care services for women without co-payments or deductibles, including contraception. The new rules would go into effect in January 2013.
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Source: In These TimesHeading toward eight remaining recall elections, Wisconsin labor and Democrats gained critical momentum on July 19 as they scored an overwhelming 66-31 percent victory in Green Bay against GOP efforts to punish Democratic State Sen. Dave Hansen, a friend of labor. The remaining elections—called for after the GOP stripped public employees of virtually all bargaining rights this winter and activists occupied the Madison Capitol in protest—will be held August 9 (when six Republicans are up) and August 16 (when two other Democrats face recall efforts).
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Source: Wall Street JournalIn an unusual show of collaboration, New Jersey's public worker unions plan to join together to try to upend Gov. Chris Christie's signature accomplishment this year: cuts to their pensions and health-care benefits.
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Source: NY TimesA conflict over a plan that would allow livery cabs to pick up street hails outside the densest parts of Manhattan has much in common with a fight 40 years ago.
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Source: NBC New York
The MTA is Now Governor Cuomo's Hot Potato
NBC New York
With the resignation of MTA chief Jay Walder, Gov. Cuomo has to answer to straphangers By Gabe Pressman Governor Andrew Cuomo, like several governors before him, is facing a challenge that the state's leaders have long tried to avoid. ...
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