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April 25, 2011
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Source: Fox 5 NYOwners of businesses near New York City transit hub Pennsylvania Station are complaining to authorities about panhandlers.
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Source: WPIX 11Police would like your help to catch the suspect, they say attacked a 66-year-old man on a subway platform in Queens two weeks ago Friday.
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Source: RMT (UK)On Tuesday night the Jubilee Line was plunged into chaos through a combination of a power shutdown and faulty rolling stock and operating systems leaving over 1700 passengers to be detrained and walked through sweltering tube tunnels with the assistance of station staff. By Wednesday morning, the Jubilee Line was still in total disarray.
April 22, 2011
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Source: NY1A straphanger was taken to the hospital Thursday after he got his foot pinned by a train in Grand Central Station.
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Source: Bond BuyerNew York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Thursday announced that it plans to sell three buildings on Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan to raise about $150 million.
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Source: StreetsblogFour years after Michael Bloomberg launched New York City’s sustainability agenda with congestion pricing as the marquee item, transportation reform is no longer the centerpiece of PlaNYC.
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Source: AFL-CIO Now BlogFourteen airline unions from the United States and seven other countries have formed a cooperative global organization to give workers a stronger voice in dealing with the world’s major airlines. The One World of Labor Council was created this week during a two-day meeting of union officials in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Transport Workers (TWU) and sponsored by the London-based International Transport Workers Federation (ITF).
The members of the council, which also includes the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), represent workers at American Airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Chile-based LAN Airlines, and several other carriers that belong to the oneworld global airline alliance.
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Source: NY Daily NewsState Office of Court Administration officials confirmed today that pink slips were given to 58 state employees and 16 temporary workers who are routinely used by the court system – the first of hundreds of layoffs the court system likely must undertake. Our Glenn Blain reports: “This ...
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Source: NY PostBefore sick 9/11 recovery workers can get aid, they'll have to prove they're not terrorists.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
The MTA Long Island Rail Road wants to make sure that frustrating travel experiences such as what happened Monday afternoon don't happen again. The LIRR blames Amtrak for that particular incident.
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Source:New Jersey's transportation commissioner says cumbersome union work rules cost the state as much as $13 million a year in salaries and benefits for extra toll collectors.
April 21, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationAmtrak is in the midst of a three-day sale for northeast corridor travel. No big deal, according to Amtrak spokesman Cliff Coles, who said the railroad has been holding such sales for a year now. But what caught our eye were the Chinatown Bus-like prices: $29 for Washington, D.C., or Baltimore to New York; $19 for Washington, D.C., to Richmond, Virginia . The fares are valid for travel May 10, to May 26. That raises the obvious question of whether Amtrak is responding to competitive pressure from inter-city buses, which a DePaul University study says grew by six percent nationwide in 2010.
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Source: MetroYesterday, a man exposed himself to me in the subway. I ride the train every day, for several hours a day. Nothing like this has ever happened.
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Source: Fox 5
Minibus and Gravel Truck Collide on Long Island: MyFoxNY.com
One person died and several others were hurt after a collision between a special-needs bus and a tractor-trailer on a rural road on eastern Long Island. A dispatcher for the Maryhave Center of Hope said that six clients were on the minibus along with two staffers.
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Source: NY ObserverThe Bloomberg administration's quest to tame—or is it to sissify—the streets continues, as the Department of Transportation announced over the weekend that it was moving forward this summer with a re-engineering of Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, that vehicular miasma where Flatbush Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue and Eastern Parkway collide.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowA complaint issued today by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the Boeing Co. is a victory for all American workers—particularly aerospace workers in both Puget Sound and South Carolina, officials with the Machinists
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Source: Press ReleaseThe site of a former trolley barn in Harlem will be transformed into a new, state-of-the-art bus depot. The Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot is a $225 million design-build project for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignAt a Senate Budget Committee hearing, legislators have grilled NJDOT Commissioner Jim Simpson over the Christie Administration’s plans to fund transportation. What’s come to light so far has not been pretty.
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Source:State Office of Court Administration officials confirmed today that pink slips were given to 58 state employees and 16 temporary workers who are routinely used by the court system – the first of hundreds of layoffs the court system likely must undertake. Our Glenn Blain reports: “This ...
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Source: DNAinfo.comA homeless man accused of slashing a woman in the face with a pen went ballistic after she asked him not to light up a joint on a busy morning rush hour 3 train, prosecutors said at his arraignment Wednesday.
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