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July 18, 2011
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Source: NY TimesNearly a month after the State Legislature passed a bill drastically expanding taxi access throughout New York City, the governor has yet to signal what he will do.
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Source: NY TimesWith New York City facing a huge deficit in the coming fiscal year, this year’s agreement may be short-lived.
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Source: Fox 5 NYA tour bus traveling from Washington, D.C., to Niagara Falls crashed in a wooded median in western New York on Sunday afternoon, killing two people and injuring 35, state police said.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesReaders recall the subway in the 1970s and 1980s, when cars were not crowded on weekends, but there were plenty of other problems to contend with.
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Source: AFL-CIO Now blogAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka announced support for President Obama's plan to nominate Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, currently is chief of enforcement at the CFPB.
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Source: Village VoiceThis should absolutely not come as a surprise, but anyone who uses the New York City subway system will experience some trying times this weekend. Do you take the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, D, E, F, G, L, N, Q, or R trains? Sorry 'bout that. For us Williamsburgers, this is par for the course. The reason for the L's un-usability between Lorimer and Broadway Junction this weekend : rail work at Myrtle Avenue and Halsey Street. But why does this keep happening, over and over again?
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Source: Brooklyn PaperAmple brunch options plus hipsters with unlimited MetroCards times weekend track repairs equals one angry subway ridership.
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Source: NY TimesQ. I have seen rats in the subways run over, under and next to the third rail, but I have never seen or heard of a rat’s electrocution. Why not?
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Source:An indictment was handed up in the case of a Bronx bus driver who prosecutors say was beaten up in an argument over a dog.
July 15, 2011
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Source: AFL-CIO Now blogThe battles against anti-worker laws across the country have turned to the ballot boxes and courtrooms. As voters go to the polls next week in high profile recall elections in Wisconsin, workers in other states and their lawyers will argue before judges that some anti-worker laws should be struck down.
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Source: NY Daily NewsState AFL-CIO boss Denis Hughes is banging the drum on pension reform again -- something Gov. Cuomo says will be atop his to-do list in his sophomore session.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesHad New York City Transit finally come to its senses and realized how much verbiage there was in its public service messages? Had there simply been a technical foul-up at Columbus Circle that truncated the announcement?
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Source: Brian Lehrer Show - WNYC
Chief digital officer for New York City Rachel Sterne discusses the MTA app competition and other tech projects in the works to make the city function better.
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Source: NY ConvergenceAccording to a survey conducted by the Straphangers Campaign, a third of the pay phones in the NY subway system do not work. The survey tested 740 pay phones in the top 40 subway stations last summer, finding that 31 percent did not work (e.g no dial tone, could not connect to a test 1-800 number, coins fell through, wouldn’t return coins, coin slot blocked, or had a bad handset).
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Source:The Congressional Research Service said this week that the House Republican plan to privatizing rail service currently provided by Amtrak would violate the Takings Clause of the U. S.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe MTA has quietly reduced the number of trains running on two of its busiest - and most crowded - subway lines, the Daily News has learned.
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Source: Transit BloggerYesterday afternoon, MTA New York City Transit announced that the M86 maybe subject to overnight detours.
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Source: Transit BloggerYesterday afternoon, MTA New York City Transit sent out a press release to highlight upcoming weekend service diversions on the L.
July 14, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsHis people said he'd do it and he did. Gov. Cuomo just announced he vetoed a bill that would have allowed school districts to free up money by borrowing to cover mandated pension costs.
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Source: Western Queens GazetteThe MTA, in conjunction with the city Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY/NJ) is set to look at the issue of LaGuardia Airport access again, although not via an extension of the elevated “N” line beyond Ditmars Boulevard along 31st Street.
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