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February 21, 2012
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Source: The New York ObserverThe TriState Transportation Campaign just launched a new set of radio ads ahead of public hearings next week for the administration-approved, mass-transit-less bridge planned to replace the dangerously deteriorated Tappan Zee. The spots conclude: “Without transit, we’ll be stuck in traffic for decades. Tell Albany—we need transit on the Tappan Zee.”
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Source: WABC 7People in New York City's taxi industry are questioning how much money the city is going to raise in upcoming medallion auctions. The city is estimating $1 billion.
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Source: DNAInfo.comMegabus will be able to load passengers from a controversial new stop at the Port Authority until at least April, a judge has ruled.
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Source: NY1Some residents on Manhattan's Upper East Side are complaining that vibrations from the blasting for the Second Avenue subway line are damaging their century-old landmarked homes. NY1's Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: NY TimesWelcome to Second Avenue in Manhattan, where the subway construction project makes it feel as if angry monsters are battling it out below ground. And when you wander down to 72nd Street, it looks as if they’ve brought along places to stay: Two impossibly large metal trailers that stand five stories tall and span almost the length of a city block.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSUBWAY MANAGERS in October announced a bold and seemingly moronic experiment: They would remove the garbage cans from two subway stations to see if that would lead to less litter.
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Source: DNAinfo.comNew renderings offer a peek inside the future Fulton Street Transit Center.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSilver told the Daily News that his conference has “problems” with Cuomo’s push to offer new state workers the option of a 401(k)-type plan — putting the state’s two powerful Democrats on a collision course.
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Source: Press-RepublicanNova Bus is planning to expand its Plattsburgh plant and produce a new interior bus design. Nova Bus Marketing Director Nadine Bernard said the company is investing in transit buses fueled by compressed natural gas.
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Source: amNYAn MTA employee allegedly watched a guy snag an iPhone from a 25-year-old's hands as he snoozed on a stationary E train at Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer stop early Saturday morning. The station cleaner and the suspect, Claudel Dor, got into a shouting match and when police intervened, they found the phone, and two bank cards and a student ID card taken from another male, officials said.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceThe street musicians, Heth and Jed Weinstein, allege in a lawsuit that Officer Isaac Valdez has harassed and threatened them and prevented them from performing, despite their city permission to do so.
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Source: Journal-NewsYou have to wonder what eight state senators from Long Island were thinking when they ask the Metropolitan Transportation Authority not to run Metro-North Railroad trains to Penn Station. That is, I have to wonder, because the senators weren’t talking to me about it.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe closures are part of the transit authority's FASTRACK program, which aims to speed through construction and subway maintenance by shuttering scores of stations at once.
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Source: WNYCCommuters had high hopes that Congress would restore the full federal transit tax benefit, cut late last year, as part of the massive payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits bill passed today. But it didn’t happen Friday.
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Source: WPIX
From December to February, police say 13 victims have come forward to report their phones have been stolen. Four incidents took place in Queensboro near 31st Street and 36th and 39th avenues. There was also one near 5th Ave. and 23rd street in Manhattan, and three at the Prince Street and Broadway station.
February 17, 2012
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Source: NYT > Steven Greenhouse
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Source: Capital New YorkDuring the panel evet, Tri-State Transportation Campaign director Kate Slevin moderated a dialogue between Schaller, former traffic commissioner Sam Schwartz (who coined the word ‘gridlock’ in the 1970s) and Jeffrey Zupan, a senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association.
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Source: City & StateGov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan for a new Tappan Zee Bridge has drawn criticism for not making space for mass transit, but Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald said yesterday that will speed up the project and lower costs. Adding bus rapid transit to the bridge, for example, would add at least a year to a project studied for over a decade, she said, since it would require an environmental impact statement for the stations. “So each one of those stations would have to have its own traffic analysis, air quality analysis and then there’s the subsidy associated with operating costs,” McDonald said after delivering the governor’s budget message in Manhattan. A full mass transit corridor also would add $4 billion to $5 billion, she said, potentially doubling the $5 billion estimated cost of replacing the bridge: “It made sense to advance the bridge into construction at this point in a manner so it could go into construction this summer and fall in a way that does not preclude transit in the future.”
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Source: Brooklyn DailyGolden (R–Bay Ridge) said the proposal to launch ferry routes from Manhattan to Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, and Canarsie won’t set sail until the city agrees to fund the project.
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Source: SchoolBook / NY TimesThis being New York, there are sure to be new hurdles ahead — and the situation between the United Federation of Teachers and the city’s Education Department remains dicey, both because of tensions between the two entities and because of Mr. Bloomberg’s insistence on a plan to shut down and reopen 33 failing schools over the objections of the union president, Michael Mulgrew.
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