Media Links
June 7, 2011
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Source: NY TimesSome technology companies and city officials see potential in using smartphones to alert users to potholes and train delays.
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Source: CBS New YorkNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says a spike in public worker retirements is no surprise as the state wrestles with benefits changes.
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Source:Jiwan Singh blames the world's most notorious terrorist for the bias attacks he and his family have suffered over their religion.
June 2, 2011
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Source: NY1Livery cab drivers and base owners marched in Washington Heights on Wednesday to protest the city's "Five Borough Taxi Plan," saying that their business would be hurt by 6,000 additional yellow cabs operating primarily outside of Manhattan.
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Source: Associated PressThe union representing Atlantic City casino service employees is encouraging workers at Resorts Casino Hotel who took pay cuts last winter to apply for food stamps.
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Source: NY TimesWASHINGTON — No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent. Seventeen months before the next election, it is increasingly clear that President Obama must defy that trend to keep his job.
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Source: TWU 250-A website"With your support and strength, we were able to negotiate a Tentative Agreement under which you lose no wages, no premiums, no allowances and no benefits. Moreover, under the Tentative Agreement your monthly healthcare costs will substantially decrease, and MTA will continue to pickup the 7.5% employee pension contribution."
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Source: NY TimesCity Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn proposed cuts to the Department of Education’s budget, in an attempt to help minimize planned teacher layoffs.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe Democrats will need to persuade the Senate's Republican majority that the proposals will work if they are to become law. The jobs bill is being introduced with just nine days left in the scheduled legislative session.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe Yonkers City Council has adopted a resolution putting a $20,000 overtime cap on municipal workers.
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Source: AFA press releaseNMB Agrees With Flight Attendant Union - Delta Election Merits Investigation.
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Source: The Takeaway - WNYCWNYC's Transportation Nation reporter Jim O'Grady says that prior to its closure, the Sky Express Bus Company had the worst record in the country for driver fatigue and falsifying driving records. He explains that the company was about to be shut down, when the crash happened.
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Source: Chicago TribuneThe vast majority of the 440,000 senior citizens who registered to receive free transit rides over the last three years will lose the privilege on Sept. 1, officials said Wednesday.
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Source: NY PostPublic Advocate Bill de Blasio -- not usually an ally of Mayor Bloomberg -- offered a strong and unqualified endorsement yesterday of the administration's hotly debated plan to establish a new metered taxi fleet exclusively for the boroughs outside Manhattan.
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Source: NY PostPassengers will get a free ride for the first 12 days of a new ferry service linking several neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens with Manhattan.
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Source: NBC 4A Bronx woman who was struck and killed by a subway on the Lexington Avenue line had recently struggled with fainting spells, her family tells NBC New York.
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Source: Plattsburgh Press RepublicanNova Bus, like rail-car maker Bombardier and many Canadian manufacturers of a range of products, coveted the rich American marketplace right next door. But governments in the United States have this fervent desire to enrich their own constituencies in the products they buy. Thus, when MTA goes out to purchase buses, it naturally favors companies that have a presence in New York state and can deliver a solid benefit to New Yorkers, as well as top-shelf equipment to users.
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Source:State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is holding up approval of a major highway construction contract amid allegations that the Cuomo administration improperly steered work to union crews at a cost of millions of additional tax dollars.
June 1, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationWe know what the problem is --but what are they going to do? That was the question posed to the Chicago DOT Commissioner, Gabe Klein, the NY-NJ HUD Administrator, Adolfo Carrion, and Judith Enck, the NY-NJ EPA Administrator who came to speak (or in Enck's case, to be a member of the audience) at Transportation Nation's forum at WNYC's Greene Space to discuss our documentary "Back of the Bus: Mass Transit, Race, and Inequality."
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Source: Politics on the HudsonSen. Lee Zeldin, a freshman Republican from Suffolk County, has a new website today that includes a petition to get Albany to repeal the payroll tax for the 12 counties in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority region in the New York City area.
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