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July 1, 2011
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Source: NY TimesThe Cuomo administration, following through on one of the most contentious cutbacks included in the state budget, will close seven of the state’s dozens of prisons.
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Source: Transportation Nation
Schematic for a new power cable to New York City. (Photo by Hudson Transmission Partners)
(New York, NY – WNYC) The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the City of New York–the two largest energy users in the Northeast–are balking at a request by the New York Power Authority for help in building an $850 million transmission cable under the Hudson River. The transit agency, for one, doesn’t think the payments are worth it.
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Source: Fox 5 NYThe cheaper rides on the New Jersey Turnpike are over Friday for drivers whose E-ZPass transmitters were issued by other states.
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Source: Press ReleaseTonight, Vincent Alvarez was elected President of the New York City Central Labor Council, the largest such council in the country, representing more than one million union members throughout the city.
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Source:Astoria residents gathered on Monday to remember the bus and train lines they lost a year ago. Residents holding signs in memory of the W and V trains which once stopped in the area, joined others holding petitions to reinstate the QM22 bus, which once transported passengers from Astoria to Manhattan.
June 30, 2011
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Source: NY ObserverVillage Voice employees are threatening a strike this week because of diminishing salaries and cuts to staff. But here’s an interesting twist! The staff is threatening to stop working for the Voice, as you’d normally expect in a strike, but they’re not going to stop working. The plan is to keep publishing–but on Tumblr, where Village Voice Media can’t sell ads against it.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowWe at the AFL-CIO believe that together, with our partners in business and government, we can profitably invest at least $10 billion in workers’ capital over the next five years in public infrastructure projects to make America more competitive and energy-efficient.
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Source: NY Daily NewsMayor Bloomberg wants a full $600 million refund from the main contractor in the scandal-scarred CityTime payroll project. The system for approximately 163,000 employees is up and running, but "because the project was apparently tainted by fraud and kickback schemes, the city must be made whole," the mayor said in angry letter.
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Source: TransitBloggerJust a short time ago, MTA NYC Transit announced that starting this Sunday, the Bx10 will temporarily be rerouted in Kingsbridge due to construction. Here are the details via a press release.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA Brooklyn subway clerk thought she was staring death in the face Wednesday when two bandanna-wearing bandits tried to torch her booth during a robbery.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThe East River service is popular in its first week of paid rides.
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Source: NY1Hundreds of times a year transit riders get trapped in elevators in subway stations, but now state officials allege some transit workers may have deliberately left people stuck longer than necessary. NY1's Transit reporter Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: Transportation NationThe U.S. Department of Transportation is loaning Amtrak more than half a billion dollars to buy new locomotives for the Northeast and Keystone Corridors. This will pay for first fleet upgrade in the Northeast since Acela service was introduced a decade ago.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe MTA says the 75-year-old RFK Bridge will get $1 billion dollars in capital improvements over the next 15 years.
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Source: TransitBloggerWhen the last round of service cuts took place last year, it was highlighted how bus service took the brunt of it. One of the services affected was the M50 which lost its weekend service. Flash forward to a short time ago where MTA NYC Transit announced that as of this Sunday, weekend service will be reinstated albeit on a shorter route. Here are the details via its press release.
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Source:Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed nearly 5,500 state employee layoffs to balance Connecticut's two-year, $40.1 billion budget now that workers have defeated a labor-savings and concessions deal.
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Source: amNYFollowing a rash of attacks against bus drivers, the MTA has begun installing shields to protect the workers from violent riders, transit officials told amNewYork.
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Source: Greg Mocker / WPIX TV
Greg Mocker has his monthly talk with MTA Chairman Jay Walder in this video.
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Source: NY Daily NewsEveryone who has ventured down into the subway is by now too well aware of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's self-promotional "Improving, Nonstop" advertising campaign.
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Source: NY PostUnder a new program, the agency demanded that officers at the Henry Hudson Bridge try to convince all cash-paying customers to sign up for the "E-ZPass On The Go" program, which grants drivers immediate access to an...
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