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June 29, 2011
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Source: amNYFor the next month, Bronx straphangers are going to have a harder time getting around on the weekends.
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Source: Mobilizing the RegionThe possible collapse of an agreement between Connecticut and its state employee unions has created tremendous uncertainty around the state budget. While the state employees’ coalition has postponed any action on contract concessions which would be necessary for Connecticut to balance its budget, Governor Malloy has given no indication that he will back down from moving forward with a “Plan B” budget that could result in thousands of layoffs and spending cuts that are even deeper than were adopted under the initial budget agreement. This can’t bode well for ensuring that Connecticut’s road, bridge and transit infrastructure are maintained in a state of good repair.
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Source: StreetsblogA few weeks ago, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor published his list of bills the House will attempt to get through before the August recess. The transportation reauthorization was not among them.
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Source: Second Ave SagasWhile complaints over construction dust and debris fill the air along Second Ave., the MTA has asked Upper East Siders for help. With the current authorization for the authority’s five-year capital plan set to expire at the end of the year, the MTA will not be able to continue apace with its big-ticket items — including the Second Ave. Subway — without legislative action. To that end, the authority is urging Upper East Siders who do not want to deluged with a construction slowdown to push their elected representatives to find a solution.
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Source: amNYA construction company supervisor was acquitted Tuesday in the deaths of two firefighters killed while fending off a blaze in the doomed Deutsche Bank building near Ground Zero.
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Source: PoughkeepsieGov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators made exceptional headway this session, securing agreements on some long-sought-after policies, including a property tax cap and a power siting law.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe so-called "bridge people" - New Yorkers who, like me, live in the outer boroughs and upper Manhattan - have high hopes of finally feeling a little less like second-class citizens.
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Source: NY Daily NewsTime apparently doesn't heal all wounds for Queens straphangers that still feel the void left after the MTA significantly slashed service a year ago.
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Source: NY Daily NewsStraphangers stuck in elevators may have been trapped longer than necessary because a new monitoring system was plagued by false alarms, the Daily News has learned.
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Source: NBC New YorkA 13-year-old girl on Staten Island was hit and killed while trying to catch a city bus on the last day of school.
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Source: NY TimesA.F.L.-C.I.O. officials said they planned to work with financial institutions to amass hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit large commercial buildings.
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Source: Fox 5 NYNJ Transit cops are teaming up with the FBI and the Transportation Security Administration to step up security on its commuter rail and bus system.
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Source: NY Observer“Say it loud! Say it clear! Scott Walker is not welcome here!” chanted a gaggle of union members and supporters gathered on a hot strip of strip of sidewalk in Grand Army Plaza Park on the Upper East Side this afternoon. Walker, the first-year governor of Wisconsin, became a national villain of the labor movement.
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Source: NY1According to the City Economic Development Corporation, 109,000 people hopped the ferry between its launch on June 13 and this past Sunday.
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Source:Transit police are in the midst of a serious crackdown on fare evasion, Metro has learned, hoping that catching criminals at the turnstiles will curb other crimes.
June 28, 2011
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Source:Overnight subway construction is keeping garbage-collection trains from making all stops to collect trash from platform canisters, Transit President Thomas Prendergast said at the agency’s monthly meeting yesterday. What’s more, trucks that pick up subway garbage at the street level are often broken down, the transit chief said.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
LIRR East River Tunnel Smoke
myfoxny.com
... smoke condition in one of the East River tunnels, the MTA said. Also, there is currently no westbound LIRR service between Jamaica and Penn Station, so the New York City Transit subways will cross-honor fares to Penn Station from Jamaica and Woodside.
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Source: NY Daily NewsGov. Cuomo this morning was downright chilly when asked about the status of contract negotiations with the second largest state worker union.
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Source: Fox 5 NYAn analysis by the New York Post of New York State's bridge-maintenance rating system, found that one-fifth of the Metropolitan Transportation Agency's bridges and their approaches scored low.
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Source: Yahoo NewsIt's become a ritual for travelers on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line between Boston and Washington, D.C., revived this week: Train service is suspended and the line's pre-World War II electrical system is fingered as the culprit.
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