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February 2, 2012
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Source: Fast CompanyFor the first time ever, the results of the pilot have been provided, offering insight into just how much traction this technology is seeing among consumers--and how far it is from entering the mainstream.
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Source: Transportation NationTalks resume Thursday between New York City’s Transport Workers Union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It is the first time the two sides will have met since contract talks collapsed late last month.
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Source: NY PostThe major victory for the Transport Workers Union Local 100 amid tense negotiations reverses the current agency policy, which gives subway operators three days off only if the person struck is killed.
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Source: NY1An abandoned rail line in Queens has sparked debate as some residents are now pushing for its restoration as a transit link while others would like to see it become a park. NY1's Roger Clark filed the following report.
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Source: NY Daily NewsPays millions more to cover the interest on the debt.
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Source: Capital New YorkOn the eve of what has long promised to be a scathing audit of his management of the Port Authority, Chris Ward issued a series of dire pronouncements on the state of New York infrastructure and transit system.
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Source: NY Daily NewsMichael Bloomberg And Sheldon Silver: It's getting tougher and tougher for low-income people to afford the basics
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Source: Crain's New York BusinessA week after Brooklyn workers vote to unionize, company boss expresses disappointment in result and promises changes. Union says it's too little, too late.
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Source: KERA FM (Dallas, TX)James Little, International President of the Transport Workers Union, says his union is set to take the biggest hit in American’s restructure plan. 8,800 people altogether, between fleet service workers, mechanics and others. American’s 20 year-old maintenance operation at Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport is slated to close, taking its 2,200 employees. Little thought the number would be smaller because the union had already agreed to some job losses.
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Source: AFL-CIO NOW BLOGFar from conceding defeat after the passage of a so-called right to work (RTW) bill, tens of thousands of Hoosier workers came together in solidarity to march from the statehouse to Super Bowl village in Indianapolis. From the steps of the statehouse, Indiana AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott said today would mark a new start to taking back the state, starting with “the biggest march Indiana has ever seen!”
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal-NewsIn a committee meeting scheduled for Thursday, lawmakers say they won’t back changes to the Liberty Lines contract with the county, which they maintain is needed since the bus company is picking up a portion of the route that was run by another operator.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityQuinn’s “Transportation Report” contains not one word about public transportation. Framing the council’s transportation agenda as a win for “nearly every New York City driver,” Quinn ignores the 55 percent of commuters who rely on transit. Quinn and the City Council are kowtowing to the city’s motoring elite the same way Republicans in the House of Representatives are writing legislation to please oil companies.
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Source: SchoolBook / NY TimesOf the unions representing public school teachers and principals in New York City, the principals’ union had played a passive role in the charged and increasingly divisive dispute over an evaluation system to gauge the performance of teachers and principals in 33 struggling schools receiving federal grants to help improve their results.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe accident, involving a southound C train, happened at 2:15 p.m. at the Liberty Avenue station, an FDNY spokesman said.
February 1, 2012
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Source: City Room / NY TimesThe current group of dogs, whose training started in September and ends in February, are the first New York Police Department dogs to be outfitted with a $9,000 infrared camera, the same type used by the Navy Seals in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound last year. A total of about 100 dogs work for the Police Department in Emergency Services, narcotics, the bomb squad and the transit bureau, which has about 30.
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Source: am New YorkThe errors include subway connections to the Atlantic Terminal and the Hunters Point Long Island Rail Road stations - which do not have overnight service - and markings for other LIRR and Metro-North stations where the trains don't run overnight.
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Source: The Hill's Transportation ReportTransportation Secretary Ray LaHood said a Congressional Budget Office report that the highway trust fund would be empty by fiscal year 2014 shows President Obama has been right to call for increased funding for transportation projects.
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Source: Associated PressThe House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said in a statement that the bill provides the long-term stable funding the FAA needs as it transitions from an air traffic control system that's based on World War II-era technology to one based on GPS technology.
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Source: Staten Island Advance"If relentless rounds of bridge toll increases are hard on Staten Island commuters, they are ruinous to truckers who must cross the spans at ever greater expense."
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Source: NY TimesThe investigation is the first significant inquiry undertaken by Andrew Hevesi, the new chairman of the Assembly’s Oversight, Analysis and Investigation Committee. He is investigating the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, which consists of leaders from the city’s government, three Hudson Valley counties, two Long Island counties, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the State Transportation Department, as well as nonvoting representatives from the federal government, New Jersey, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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