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April 4, 2011
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Source: Long Island PressLong Island Bus has been saved—at least until Dec. 31. State officials said in a statement Friday that “$8.6 million in MTA monies, made available by the
April 1, 2011
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Source: Associated PressAn iPhone application that informs users about the latest travel conditions by combining commuter updates with official transit data is the winner for this year's BigApps competition sponsored by the New York City government.
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Source: Associated PressThe transit agency has suspended payouts to nonunion employees.
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Source: NY TimesThe unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March and companies added workers at the fastest two-month pace since before the recession began.
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Source: StreetsblogGuangzhou is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The economic hub of China’s southern coast, it has undergone three decades of rapid modernization, and until recently the city’s streets were on a trajectory to get completely overrun by traffic congestion and pollution. But Guangzhou has started to change course. Last year the city made major strides to cut carbon emissions and reclaim space for people, launching new bus rapid transit and public bike sharing systems.
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Source: Transportation Nation(Kate Hinds, Transportation Nation) When I first began riding the rails in New York City, riders could take the K train from 168th Street to the World Trade Center. But because it duplicated existing lines (the C and the E), the MTA took the route out of service in the 1980s.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThere is just not enough money to move ahead on an ambitious — and popular — proposal to bury the aging Brooklyn–Queens Expressway in a tunnel.
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Source: WNYCDemocrats attempted to score political points on the Senate floor, as Senator Liz Kruegger, a Manhattan Democrat, questioned Republicans why they agreed to allow a tax on the state’s millionaires to sunset, when they allowed an MTA payroll tax that effects small businesses to stand.
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Source: Crain'sGreenpoint, Brooklyn, and Maspeth, Queens, are less than three miles apart, but they're on far-opposite sides of a property dispute. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been thinking of moving a 150-vehicle bus garage from the waterfront in Greenpoint to an industrial location in Maspeth. At least that was the idea until earlier this month, when local Queens politicians caught wind of the plan.
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Source: NY TimesPortugal's government has just fallen in a dispute over austerity proposals. Irish bond yields have topped 10 percent for the first time. And the British government has just marked its economic forecast down and its deficit forecast up.
What do these events have in common? They're all evidence that slashing spending in the face of high unemployment is a mistake. Austerity advocates predicted that spending cuts would bring quick dividends in the form of rising confidence, and that there would be few, if any, adverse effects on growth and jobs; but they were wrong.
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Source: NY PostThe subway system will be hit with a slew of service changes this weekend that will make riding the rails total guesswork.
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Construction giant Skanska USA to pay $20 million for using fake minority-owned firm to get contractSource: NY Daily NewsA construction giant will pay almost $20 million to avoid prosecution for using a sham minority-owned firm to win lucrative government contracts, the feds said Thursday.
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Source: NY PostHer appointment comes seven months after the mayor named Ranji Nagaswami as the city's first chief investment adviser and chairwoman of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the largest of the five pension funds. One insider said Bloomberg intends to take more control of the pension system.
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Source: CBSPolice said the teens ganged up on the men aboard a S74 bus on Staten Island and that 17-year-old Jacquille Pender of Staten Island was arrested a short time later.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe MTA's long battle to deny its workers a modest raise finally came to an end yesterday when the state's highest court refused to hear another round of legal arguments.
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Source:This awesome vintage footage of a Times Square subway station in 1986 shows signs that look totally retro and trains that are covered in graffiti!
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Source: DNAinfo.comA worker with Skanska USA Buildings suffered head trauma and leg injuries in a fall at a CUNY site on Tuesday.
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Source: NY TimesWhile both laws severely limit public employees’ ability to bargain collectively the Ohio law largely eliminates bargaining for the police and firefighters.
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Source: In These TimesA spokesman for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday that the state will comply with a court order to temporarily halt the implementation of a notorious anti-union law, pending a court challenge.
March 31, 2011
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Source:This is statement from MTA HQ about decision not to hear appeal of raises called for in union contract.... I.will get more info and background on this... "We're disappointed that the Court chose not to hear our appeal. As a result of this decision, the arbitrator's decision will stand despite its failure to appreciate the MTA's ability to pay these raises. We remain hopeful that we can work with our labor unions to find productivity improvements that will protect jobs as we work to close a $100 million gap in 2011 and greater deficits in 2012 and beyond." VIA Email from MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz
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