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February 23, 2012
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Source: NY Daily NewsIf the Legislature doesn’t act by the March 31 budget deadline, Cuomo said he will insert his pension reform model into a take-it-or-leave-it emergency budget measure.
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Source: am New YorkAccording to crashstat.org, Northern Boulevard and Union Street is one of the five most dangerous intersections in the city for senior pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal-NewsTZB Presentation 2.22.12
Here’s the Slideshow presentation by Thruway Authority executive director Thomas Madison today on the agency’s plans for the new Tappan Zee Bridge.
February 22, 2012
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Source: NY TimesMr. Cuomo said the Queens proposal would cost taxpayers nothing, since it would be financed by Genting. But the company wants highway and transit improvements that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Source: NY Daily NewsCritics of the current defined-benefit retirement plans for state workers incorrectly assert that New York State’s pension system is financially sound only because of an unlimited amount of taxpayer money.
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Source: XconomyIn areas like book publishing, video entertainment, and mobile communications, Google’s expanding reach has been exhaustively covered by the press. But there’s one area where Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has exercised a transformative influence almost completely outside the spotlight of media attention: public transportation. The changes are easy to overlook, especially if you never step out of your car, or if you only ride the bus or subway in your own city. But there’s been a dramatic shift over the last five years in the way people plan trips on public transportation and the way transit agencies communicate with their riders—and Google is the main instigator.
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Source: The Hill's Congress BlogEveryday 8.5 million residents of the Tri-State area use New York City's mass-transit system. They rely on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) buses, trains and subways to get them to and from work, visit loved ones, or simply enjoy everything this great city has to offer. Likewise, the 49 million tourists the City welcomes every year use the City's transit system to explore the five boroughs, visit our world-class museums or see the sights.
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Source: Wall Street JournalOfficials who launched the city's East River Ferry service last summer say they always expected ridership to dip in winter, as tourists dwindled and chilly temperatures made a $4 commute across open water less appealing to locals. And it dipped significantly. Average daily ridership on the ferry fell by nearly 50% from its June launch to December, according to the most recent figures available from Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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Source: StreetsblogAs advocates for transit on the Tappan Zee Bridge take to the airwaves, the media are starting to ask questions about the Cuomo administration’s ever-shifting and unexplained cost estimates for the project.
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Source: WPIX 11People who live in the historic neighborhood called Treadwell Farms Historic District between 60th and 63rd streets and between 2nd and 3rd Avenues say every evening around 5:30 when workers start blasting for the 2nd Avenue subway project, they brace themselves.
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Source: NY PostThe woman who swung open the door of her car and caused a bicyclist to swerve fatally into the path of a city bus was found guilty yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
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Source: Long Island PressA day before Veolia Transportation is set to hold the first in a series of public hearings on cuts to its seven-week-old Nassau Inter-County Express bus service, a small group of transit advocates calling themselves the Long Island Bus Riders’ Union huddled at a bus stop outside the bus system’s Garden City headquarters to express their “grave concerns” about the proposal.
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Source: NY PostAn 81-year-old man was shoved onto the tracks at a Brooklyn elevated subway station after he chased a teen who stole his iPhone, authorities said yesterday.
February 21, 2012
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Source: LA TimesReporting from Columbus, Ohio— The future of the labor movement may very well rest in the hands of a man who was sitting over a paper plate piled with spaghetti, amusing his audience by twirling a napkin in his ear, then hamming it up with a wink and a goofy grin that would make any teenager cringe.
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Source: NY PostA crazed subway panhandler pulled a knife and threatened a straphanger on a crowded train yesterday before being subdued by a good Samaritan and held until cops arrived, authorities and witnesses said.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA leading authority on the illnesses suffered by Ground Zero responders, Dr. Philip Landrigan says that an analysis of 20,000 medical case histories revealed an incidence of cancer that is 14% higher tha expected for a population of the same profile. The most common elevations were in prostate, thyroid and blood cancers.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe unidentified victim was hit just before 12:30 a.m., FDNY officials said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Source: LA TimesNeeding a mediator to help build trust and facilitate the delicate negotiations to combine two very different unions, SAG and AFTRA turned to Susan Schurman, a onetime bus driver and union leader turned academic who was the founding president of the AFL-CIO-sponsored National Labor College and was adept at training union officials.
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Source: NY TimesThe commission is weighing a proposal by Square, a mobile payment company based in San Francisco, to replace Taxi TVs in 50 cabs with similarly shaped iPads or other tablets. If approved, the pilot program would allow riders to play computer games and swipe a credit card at any point in the trip.
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Source: NY TimesMychal Johnson opposes putting a FreshDirect warehouse in the Bronx. “This was supposed to be where railyards changed the city's transportation,” he says. “Now we're going to have trucks pouring more pollution into a neighborhood with the worst asthma rates in New York.”
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