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July 29, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsAfter more than 100 uninvited community members RSVP'd to an exclusive eakfast with Walmart yesterday, store officials made a last-minute location change to avoid a spectacle.
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Source: NY PostA massive refrigerator stuffed with empty Arizona iced tea bottles somehow ended up on the West 4th Street subway platform, where it languished for days before the MTA finally removed it.
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Source: WTNH (CT)Although the union vote will be complete in just a matter of weeks, the wait for thousands of workers is agonizing.
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Source: NY1Staten Island bus riders will soon be able to get more up to the minute information about their commutes, as buses will be equipped with GPS devices to let straphangers know when they'll arrive.
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Source: NY Daily NEwsDozens of swamped Bronx business owners are struggling to stay afloat in the wake of the giant water main break that put them underwater.
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Source: NY Daily NewsIf you want to know why more than 450 city park workers are about to be laid off or why the Parks Department has imposed outrageous fee increases, just take a look at the new Mets and Yankees ballparks.
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Source: NY Daily NewsAssemblyman Matthew Titone today blasted the doctor overseeing the 9/11 Zadroga program for denying health coverage to cancer-stricken Ground Zero responders and residents.
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Source:We’re getting set to make big improvements to the AFL-CIO website and blog. A couple months ago, we asked for your feedback through an online reader survey. Many of you took time to complete it, and your feedback is helping us create a website that serves frequent visitors and first-timers equally well.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe man brought in to resuscitate the city's embattled 911 system is resigning after less than a year on the job, the Daily News has learned. Our Gonzalez, Blau and Lemire report.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe switch failure that disrupted the morning commute was the latest in a series of recent equipment failures.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignEarlier this month, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino joined State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Senate Transportation Committee Chair Charles Fuschillo to call for a speed-up of the state’s study of replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge and adding transit to the I-287 corridor. His suggestion for speeding it up is a dangerous one: Drop the transit.
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Source: Transportation NationThe NY MTA says it receives about 700 text messages a day seeking arrival or departure information for B63 buses in Brooklyn. The transit authority last winter began piloting a GPS-based program on the Bay Ridge-Brooklyn Heights bus route, where users can send a text message asking when a bus will be arriving at a given stop.
July 28, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationPerformance on a major New York commuter rail line during last week's heat wave was a tale of the two states it serves. Outdated technology in Connecticut led to multiple train breakdowns and stranded passengers on the New Haven Line, which connects that state to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan.
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Source: NewsdayThe MTA's plan to borrow almost $7 billion to keep the region's public transit in shape and finish ambitious "megaprojects," such as the Long Island Rail Road 's connection to Grand Central Terminal, is a dangerous strategy that could burden the agency and its riders for generations, critics said Wednesday.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe MTA board voted Wednesday to allow Apple and Shake Shack to open new stores in Grand Central this fall.
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Source: Fox 5 NYA boiler exploded at a power plant in Astoria, Queens, Wednesday evening, authorities said. More than a hundred firefighters responded to the US Power Generating Company fuel oil and natural gas facility on Shore Boulevard and 20th Avenue shortly after 7:30 p.m.
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Source: NY ObserverIn our story this week about the governor taking the controls at the M.T.A., one of the main questions was whether the Cuomo administration will start shoveling more coal into the agency’s sputtering engine. […] That message reverberated today, when the M.T.A. released its new capital budget, which covers mega-projects, maintenance and new trains and buses for the next three years.
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Source: WPIX 11Click on the "Mocker's Ugliest Subway Station" icon on the upper right hand side of the mockerblog main page pix11.com/mocker (just look for my ugly picture)
July 27, 2011
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Source: Wall Street JournalFacing a cash squeeze, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to borrow $6.9 billion over the next eight years to pay for capital projects, a move that would give the agency a short-term break but saddle it with a higher debt burden for decades.
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