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January 12, 2012
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Source: VariousIn addition to the recent FASTTRACK shutdowns of the Lexington Avenue lines, the press is covering weekend service disruptions on the Q and 7 lines.
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Source: VariousAs Living Wage campaigners renew efforts to pass a law mandating city subsidized projects pay living wages, Mayor Bloomberg is expected to again announce a redevelopment project for the Kingsbridge Armory. A prior effort to redevelop the Armory was one of the first city projects which Living Wage campaigners and Bloomberg clashed over.
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Source: VariousOn Staten Island, the MTA begins implementing a GPS-based system to inform riders of arrival times for buses via smartphone.
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Source: In These TimesThe next week or so may determine whether Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and allied Republican legislators, who dominate both houses of the state legislature, succeed in passing the first “right to work” law in a northern industrial state.
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Source: WABC 7Police are on the lookout for two men wanted in a pair of robberies on the subway in the South Bronx.
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Source: Gotham GazetteSometimes it’s the little cases that go to the highest courts and establish new and surprising law. That’s what happened last month in the 2009 case of People v Joseph Hightower in which a New York City unlimited MetroCard was actually put to unlimited use. About ten million weekly swipes in the city’s transit system are on monthly unlimited cards, a card can only be used once in an 18 minute period at the same transit stop.
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Source: NY PostThe indie filmmaker saved from certain death after falling on the Staten Island Railway tracks repeatedly refused to thank the man who rescued him.
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Source: VariousNews reports have picked up on the MTA's demands for givebacks in negotiations with TWU Local 100.
January 11, 2012
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Source: NY PostIn confidential memos distributed to City Hall and the boards of New York’s five pension systems, Chief Actuary Robert North said he wants to lower the assumed “rate of return” on pension investments from 8 percent to 7 percent, as The Post first reported in October.
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Source: NY PostJonathan Parisen, 40, was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespass after his rescuer, Steven Santiago, 39, was hit by a train at the New Dorp station at 1:30 a.m. Sunday. But sources said he’ll be prosecuted only on the trespassing charge after new details emerged about the incident, which left Santiago clinging to life with massive head injuries.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSouth Bronx market supplies most of the fruits and vegetables for New York area.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignAt yesterday’s Senate confirmation hearings, MTA Chief Joseph Lhota got most of the press, but Thomas Madison, the Thruway Authority’s newly-confirmed Executive Director, said something newsworthy as well.
“At this moment in time, we don’t have the legal statutory allowance in New York State to do public-private partnership as they are technically defined in transportation projects,” Madison said. “So right now, the plan is that the Tappan Zee Bridge will be a publicly financed project.”
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Source: CBS New York
CBS2′s Ann Mercogliano spoke with John Jones about how he is using the cards to make cash. Jones said that he regularly finds MetroCards with balances and that he has made a practice of re-selling them.
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Source: WABC 7
The Double Happyness Travel, Inc. bus company was ordered to shutdown late last month after a string of potentially life threatening violations. So why is it still selling bus tickets?
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Source: VariousThe Lexington Avenue line underwent the second day of track work that shut it down. Here are reactions from the press on this developing story.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityBetween continued raids on dedicated transit funds, a cut to the MTA payroll tax, and the state’s decision to pay for the last three years of the MTA capital plan with debt, 2011 wasn’t a good year for the MTA’s finances. The New York League of Conservation Voters is hoping that 2012 turns out to be kinder to transit riders.
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Source: VariousNews outlets have picked up on Local 100's ongoing efforts to combat the influx of rats into the NYC subway system.
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Source: VariousJoe Lhota spoke with several media outlets to discuss his agenda after being confirmed as MTA Chair.
January 10, 2012
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Source: NY1The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to test drive a new vehicle designed specifically to be wheelchair accessible.
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Source: NY Post"The TWU’s contract for 38,000 subway and bus workers expires Sunday. The new contract will determine not just how much workers get paid, but also how much they’ll pay for health care — an MTA cost that will shoot up 46 percent in the next four years, to $1.7 billion."
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