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January 30, 2012
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Source: NBC New YorkThe 43-year-old woman from Islandia, who has not been identified by police, was driving over the tracks on Brentwood Road in Bay Shore when her green Volkswagen Jetta became stuck.
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Source: NY TimesNow, after decades in which proximity to a train station was the last thing on most developers’ priority lists, it has gained tremendously in importance. And Westchester and counties farther north are starting to emulate parts of Long Island and the New Jersey suburbs in reconfiguring downtown areas with more, and more densely built, places to live.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceNew York City Transit will launch a six-month pilot "super express service," the X22A, which will begin picking up passengers at Hylan Boulevard and Page Avenue, then the Outerbridge park-and-ride.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority's new chairman was on the hot seat as Island elected officials on the state Assembly's Transportation Committee asked about the agency's debt, tolls and coordinating with other tolling agencies.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe victim, in his 50s, suffered head trauma and multiple fractures to the arms and legs after plummeting from the elevated tracks along 10th Avenue at Isham Street about 3:41 a.m., the FDNY said.
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Source: NY PostNicole Gelinas misses the mark in “The Great MTA Talks Show” (PostOpinion, Jan. 23) and incorrectly dissects current negotiations between TWU Local 100 and the MTA.
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Source: NY PostThe near-constant dynamiting that’s caused everything from cracked walls to prairie-style dust storms will be done by the end of 2012, MTA Capital Construction President Michael Horodniceanu said at a Thursday Community Board 8 meeting.
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Source: PolitickerNYPublic Advocate and likely 2013 mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio is the latest city politician joining the push to establish an NYU and Polytech applied sciences campus at an empty building owned by the MTA in Brooklyn. The Politicker obtained letters Mr. de Blasio sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota last Friday urging them to support the project.
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Source: Working In These TimesAfter a nearly 13-year struggle, yesterday 282 Cablevision workers based in Brooklyn voted to join the Communication Workers of America by a margin of 180-86. The workers had previously attempted to organized on a number of occasions with both CWA and the electrical workers (IBEW) union, but each time were defeated. But by using a smart campaign strategy of building a strong shop floor committee, combined with support from public officials and the general public, this time CWA was successful.
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Source: Runnin' Scared / Village VoiceDespite the rumors mongered here, here, and here, contract negotiations between the MTA and the employees' union are actually just going fine, thank you very much. And, no: There probably won't be a strike of bus or subway workers, so you will have to go to work with that awful hangover. (The one you have every day, like you do right now, you drunk.)
January 27, 2012
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Source: PolitickerNYAfter a contentious dispute, Cablevision’s Brooklyn workforce voted to unionize with the Communication Workers of America. The union blasted out a press release touting the results. CWA says that they are the first Cablevision workers to join a union and that “cable TV is an overwhelmingly non-union industry while the traditional telecommunications industry remains highly unionized.”
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Source: NY Daily NewsWith the subways bursting at the seams, the MTA needs to expand stations in the century-old system, authority Chairman Joseph Lhota said Thursday.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceThat the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s financial standing is a high-wire act of the most precarious kind is not news to anyone who has been paying attention. It’s so bad that former MTA Chairman Jay Walder was no sooner settling into his new job as the head of Hong Kong’s mass transit system when he flatly said the MTA is on its way to fiscal ruin. The hard numbers starkly underscore the scope of the problem. Start with the $4-billion deficit that already exists in its operating budget. That’s a bigger budget gap than what the state and city are facing combined.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe blasting and drilling for the Second Avenue subway construction around E. 72nd St. has been blamed for noise, dust and noxious odors — not to mention coughs and other ailments. The end, however, appears to be in sight. Dynamiting for the “main cavern” of the future East 72nd Street Station, along with late night drilling, is expected to be finished by the summer, MTA officials told residents at a Community Board 8 Second Avenue Subway Task Force meeting Thursday night.
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Source: am New YorkAdvocacy group Transportation Alternatives wants to know straphangers' opinion of MTA service in the past few years.
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Source: Fox NY
MTA Changes East Side Access Contract: MyFoxNY.com
Construction of the MTA's East Side Access includes building huge ventilation system on 50th Street, drilling tunnels under the East River, and excavating 100 feet underneath Grand Central Terminal to create a subterranean terminal. When done, Long Island Rail Road commuters can travel directly to Grand Central -- it is a $7.4 billion undertaking. Now the MTA has removed one giant construction company, Dragados, from much of the Grand Central portion of the project, because it missed too many deadlines. Dragados was holding up other parts of the massive project, says the head of the state-funded watchdog agency covering the MTA.
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Source: VariousReports from residents around 2nd Avenue of asthma-like symptoms have some pinning construction of the 2nd Avenue Subway as the cause --but the MTA is having none of it, releasing its own report on air quality.
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Source: MTA Press Release"In an effort to provide faster service between the South Shore of Staten Island and Midtown Manhattan, MTA New York City Transit announced the rerouting of several rush hour X22 bus trips to serve the Outerbridge Park and Ride lot. "
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Source: VariousUpstate newspapers and transit advocates continue to find issues with the planned replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
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Source: VariousThe Chinatown discount carriers that defied orders to shut down over safety violations has been hit with a restraining order from the federal government.
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