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February 27, 2012
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Source: Transportation NationRobert Healy with the American Public Transportation Association spoke with staff members on Capital Hill about the bill on Friday. He said the Transportation Committee is retooling the bill. “They are considering continuing the current structure of the Highway Trust Fund as it refers to mass transit, and that’s great, but they’re also considering a shorter term bill,” said Healy. He worried that the new bill would reduce mass transit funding on an annual basis. Healy said that could upend many mass transit systems around the nation struggling to maintain service and keep up with repairs.
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Source: NY Daily NewsPolice issued 113,200 Transit Adjudication Bureau tickets last year. The MTA collected about 93,000 payments, 15,300 of them from violators’ tax refunds.
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Source: NY TimesSome New Yorkers can only dream of having a subway train ferry them straight to their front door, but residents of East 69th Street say the entrances have no place on what they believe to be one of the prettiest streets around. They have formed a block association and hired lawyers, and they plan to tap an engineering firm to conduct transportation and environmental assessments that will likely show that the entrances can and should go elsewhere, or perhaps are not needed at all. Residents are feeling, in the words of one, “hysterical,” all the while trying to defuse charges of Upper East Side snobbery.
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Source: The Bay CitizenSexual harassment on public transit has been targeted by activists in other parts of the country. In Washington, fed-up transit riders testified before the City Council last week about their experiences on the Metro. Holly Kearl, one of the leaders of the Washington-based group Collective Action for Safe Spaces , said street harassment in general and on public transit was an unrecognized problem.
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Source: Wall Street JournalFifty-five percent of the gross revenue to taxis in January came via credit card, and cards were used in 47% of all taxi trips, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission. Compare that to 2009, shortly after card readers became standard in taxi cabs when about one-third of trips were paid for by charge cards.
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Source: Eyewitness News / WABC 7
From 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. there will be no B, D, F or M service at any of the stations along Sixth Avenue between 14th Street and 57th Street.
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Source: CBS New York
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Source: StreetsblogThe New York City Department of Transportation and MTA New York City Transit will update the public on the status of the project to bring Select Bus Service to Hylan Boulevard.
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Source: Fox New York
Straphanger Hero Dies From Injuries: MyFoxNY.com
A heroic man who saved a stranger who fell on to the subway tracks, died from his injuries after he was in the head by a train in January.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
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Source: Times Herald-RecordFor better or for worse, Cuomo the Second is barreling down the Thruway in his cherished 1975 Corvette to replace the Tappan Zee with the kind of bridge that would have made a splash when his muscle car was new.
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Source: Philadelphia InquirerThe SEPTA board awarded a $98.7 million contract Thursday for the "positive train-control" system to Ansaldo STS USA Inc., a Pittsburgh-based subsidiary of an Italian signal-manufacturing company. The board also awarded a separate $1.7 million contract for related right-of-way work to Independence Constructors Corp., of Douglassville.
February 24, 2012
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Source: Daily RecordMass transit commuters will continue to get a lower pretax benefit than they did in 2011 after Congress failed again to return it to the $230 a month amount that it had been last year.
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Source: Brooklyn DailyA high-tech manufacturing facility, a cultural center and Coney Island casinos were all part of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s vision at this year’s State of the Borough address. But the thing that really got my attention was hearing my longtime colleague’s call to extend East River Ferry Service to connect Manhattan to Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie and, most importantly, Bay Ridge!
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Source: NY1The Metropolitan Transportation Authority held a community meeting on the Upper East Side Thursday night to ease concerns about the Second Avenue subway construction.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasAs hard as it is to believe, the current slate of MTA megaprojects are, by and large, operating at something akin to autopilot. While the authority still has to worry about construction timelines, budget caps and placating neighbors, the various expansion projects are generally well on their ways toward completion. Thus, it is never too early to talk about the far-off future.
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Source: NY PostDoes a drunken man who sent a woman flying into an oncoming subway train — nearly killing her — get away with it just because he was drunk?
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Source: NY Daily NewsHis attorney says the 27 transit-related incidents are caused by autism and not criminally motivated.
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Source: NY PostEvery hipster’s favorite subway line — the perennially packed L train — was almost completely shuttered 25 years ago because barely anyone was using it, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota revealed yesterday.
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Source: Brooklyn DailyWe all love the idea of a ferry service, but must determine, understand, and balance the goals against what can be accomplished reasonably and affordably at this time.
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