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February 10, 2012
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Source: NY Daily NewsSo labor unions are supposed to be dead or dying, huh? Well, somebody forgot to tell Peter Ward, head of New York City’s hotel workers union.
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Source: WNYCThe House Ways and Means committee voted to slash transit funding, a move that could cost New York City $1.7 billion. Andrea Bernstein, director of the public radio Transportation Nation project and senior correspondent for WNYC, talks about the cuts and the likely outcome of the vote next week by the full House.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA city bus smashed into scaffolding in Downtown Brooklyn Thursday evening, injuring four, after an unruly passenger tried to assault the driver, authorities said.
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Source: NY1After the station called MTA New York City Transit, the agency came out and posted "No Dumping" signs, and residents say after NY1 contacted the Department of Sanitation, the area went through a transformation.
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Source: City Room / NY TimesHere are the results of our highly nonscientific and open-ended poll about musicians, dancers and other performers on subway trains, to which well over 100 of you responded. Of those who approved of having performers in the subway system at all (and a majority of the respondents did), 55 percent give money to performers on trains, and 45 percent never do, believing them to be a pox upon the commute. (It should be noted that busking on trains is illegal.)
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Source: DNAinfo.comArmed with jeers and a banner reading “Rotten Deal,” South Bronx residents and activists blasted a package of public incentives worth nearly $130 million designed to entice Fresh Direct, the online grocer, to move its operations from Queens to the Bronx.
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Source: New York Amsterdam NewsAmerican Airlines could possibly lay off 13,000 of its employees as it enters bankruptcy protection, according to reports. The airline filed for bankruptcy in November of last year.
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Source: Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS)The Transport Workers Union of America and the Communications Workers of America have voted to work together in a new affiliation. The new partnership was unanimously endorsed by the executive boards of both unions.
February 9, 2012
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Source: CBS New YorkA deadly accident has officials in New Jersey trying to make it safer for pedestrians make it past railroad crossings.
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Source: Transportation Nation“The idea that this bill is going nowhere couldn’t be further from the truth,” said Janet Kavinoky of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a conference call organized by the American Public Transportation Association. “The reports of the demise of this bill are greatly exaggerated.”
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Source: The Washington PostThe way Metro maintains its tracks and operates its trains could be contributing to an increase in cracked rails in recent years, according to transit experts.
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Source: NY TimesThe list of outrages coming out of the House is long, but the way the Republicans are trying to hijack the $260 billion transportation bill defies belief. This bill is so uniquely terrible that it might not command a majority when it comes to a floor vote, possibly next week, despite Speaker John Boehner’s imprimatur. But betting on rationality with this crew is always a long shot.
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Source: DNAinfo.comMegabus' new pickup spot is on the south side of West 41st Street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, which is straddled by the bus station. But because it's a city street, the company won't have to pay to be there, according to city Department of Transportation policy.
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Source: The Star-LedgerCiting an audit critical of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, lawmakers from the two states are calling on the two governors to back bills intended to boost accountability at the agency.
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Source: NY TimesThe proposed labor contract covering 30,000 members of the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, A.F.L.-C.I.O., is so beneficial to workers that it seems born from a different era.
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Source: NY Daily NewsLate arrivals, rude dispatchers and vehicles that aren’t marked properly were some of the top complaints of the MTA’s Access-A-Ride program at the latest Queens Interagency Council for the Aging forum on Wednesday.
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Source: NewsLI.comSenator Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau) joins his Long Island Senate colleagues in urging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to reject a proposal which could reduce Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service into Penn Station.
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Source: Mobilizing the RegionLast night, TSTC received notice that an invitation to the February 16th Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing Project stakeholders meeting “was sent in error.” A follow-up call to the New York State Department of Transportation revealed that the meeting has been canceled. Invitations to the stakeholder meeting were sent on January 24th. It’s unclear why it took the state two weeks to realize its mistake.
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Source: MetroFASTRACK, the new MTA repair program that shuts down a large swath of subway overnight for four consecutive evenings, is moving west.
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Source: DNAinfo.comMany residents are worried about the subway project causing health problems affecting humans, but some veterinarians and pet owners said dogs are also showing a host of symptoms — from coughing, runny noses and skin conditions to psychological issues.
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