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May 27, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationNew York, which has “select bus service” in the Bronx and Manhattan, didn’t even make the list. New York’s SBS buses have some features of BRT, including off-board payment and designated lanes, but are missing others, including special BRT “stations” and lanes that are physically segregated from car lanes.
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Source: DNAinfo.comMIDTOWN — Crews returned to work Thursday morning after nearly a month's delay to begin repairing a botched construction job that had turned one of Midtown's busiest intersections into a pedestrian danger zone.
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Source: WPIX 11
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Source: The HillAmtrak supporters pushed back on months of criticism of the subsidized agency Thursday as Republicans planned to introduce a bill to remove it from contention to develop high-speed rail in the Northeast.
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Source: WXOW - La Crosse, WI"This morning Judge Sumi upheld what we knew the beginning, that the law stripping hundreds of thousands of public employees of their rights was passed illegally, in the dead of the night through a back door maneuver," said Phil Neuenfeldt, President of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. "The people have been clear from day one, they have stood together in the streets of Madison and in the streets around the state to express that this law is too extreme for Wisconsin. Today democracy was upheld. We hope that the Supreme Court will consider the careful review conducted by Judge Sumi and support her conclusion."
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Source: NY TimesStill bruised over losing some guaranteed seats in orchestra pits during their 2003 contract negotiations with Broadway producers, leaders of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians have chosen to make an example of “Priscilla” by objecting to its employment of only nine musicians and use of some taped music. Union officials and the Broadway League, which represents producers, have chosen an arbitrator to consider the musicians’ complaint and are awaiting a date for the first meeting.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe $108 million "fan plant," which would provide emergency ventilation to the subway system, is proposed occupy the open plot at the intersection of Greenwich and Seventh avenues, where the 9/11 "Tiles for America" exhibit is on display. When a preliminary design was revealed last year, residents objected to its look.
May 26, 2011
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Source: NY TimesIt even has a name, if an unwieldy one: farebox operating ratio. In recognizable English, this metric calculates the cost of running a mass transit system and the portion of it that riders pay with their coins and MetroCard swipes. For the city’s subway and bus passengers, who have seen government purse strings draw ever tighter at every level, the burden is high. The authority’s budget makers had expected it to clock in this year at 54 percent of overall costs. Instead, it is running at 64 percent.
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Source: amNYMTA president Jay Walder said Wednesday he looks forward to a new tap-and-go card to replace the MetroCard, calling the current fare-payment card “dated.”
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Source: NY1The Metropolitan Transit Authority re-launched its website Tuesday with new features for users, including a mobile "App Center."
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Source: CityRoom / NY TimesThe head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Jay H. Walder, still sees panhandlers in the subway, but not as many as he used to.
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Source: MetroIn the New York metropolitan area, pedestrians were involved in 31 percent of all traffic deaths, topping the next highest region, Buffalo, where pedestrians made up 19 percent of all fatalities.
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Source:Police say a 69-year-old man was struck by a Brooklyn-bound L train. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Source: International Transport Worker FederationThe ITF is backing a campaign to reinstate a school bus driver sacked in Illinois, USA by National Express Group US subsidiary Durham School Services.
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Source: Transportation Nation
Joe Guyon of Rock Hill, South Carolina says he’s bundling his errands and eating locally. A listener in Augusta, GA says he “cuts off his car when I idle.” Joe Manrique of North Palm Beach, Florida, says “since my daily commute is approximately 170 miles round trip, I try to walk as much as possible from my office to appointments.” A contributor from Flushing New York says “I do my errands on the way home, no matter how tired I am.”
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Source: Transportation NationThe NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s website just got a makeover. It now sports a simplified design and better tools for planning trips and saving money on fares.
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Source: The HillHouse Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) will lay out his plan to fund improvements to rail service in the Northeast using private investments Thursday, his office said Wednesday.
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Source: NY TimesDoubts about CityTime, a troubled New York City payroll automation project, grew on Wednesday as the company overseeing the project said it had fired a senior employee for misrepresenting the number of hours he had worked.
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Source: Second Ave. SagasAfter countless raids and misappropriations of supposedly dedicated MTA funds, a coalition of MTA workers, business leaders, transit activists and state politicians have started to push for a transit funding lockbox. Spearheaded by State Senator Martin Golden and Assembly Member James Brennan and with the support of Transportation Alternatives, the Straphangers Campaign and the TWU, among others, the bipartisan effort could provide another piece in the MTA funding puzzle, and it is a solution long necessary to protect transit funding in New York.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperManhattan-bound commuters will get new express service — albeit on the river rather than under it. Read more.
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