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January 10, 2012
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Source: The Transit WireNY Waterway, which operates Manhattan-based ferry services, launched a mobile application that incorporates payment and ticketing. The app allows customers to purchase and use a ticket on their mobile devices, as well as to store multiple tickets and monthly passes.
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Source: Fox NY
MTA Buses Getting Driver Shields: MyFoxNY.com
The next time you get on a city bus you might feel a bit detached from the driver; not because of where you're sitting but because the driver may be behind a protective shield.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityAfter Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address last week, Streetsblog looked a little closer at the governor’s plan to build the nation’s largest convention center at the Aqueduct racino in Ozone Park, Queens. Counting on a huge convention center near JFK airport to deliver economic development seemed like a dubious proposition, but the other side of the plan — converting the Javits Center site on the West Side of Manhattan into a mixed-use neighborhood — has a lot to recommend it.
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Source: Politics on the HudsonThe (expected) new executive director of the Thruway Authority said today he’s hopeful the state can move forward with construction of a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge as soon as “late Summer,” though it’s not clear where the money will come from to cover the expected $5 billion price tag.
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Source: WPIX"I swiped my card and nobody was around. I was going up the stairs and out of nowhere, someone lifted my dress and touched me," said Ellen, the victim who spoke exclusively to PIX11 News. Ellen, who did not want us to use her last name, said she was on her way to a show in Manhattan back on December 14th. It was around 7:30 at night and there were few people in the B and D train subway station.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal News[A] mix of labor unions and left-leaning organizations calling themselves 99% New York, held a news conference in Albany today to lay out a mix of enforcement actions and tax changes they say would make the state’s corporate tax structure more fair.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal NewsWestchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced the appointment of Jay T. Pisco as Commissioner of the Department of Public Works and Transportation.
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Source: City Room / NY Times
Last year, New York City Transit received 9,269 reports of property dropped on the tracks, a category that includes quite a lot of cellphones, wallets and iPods. That works out to an average of 25.4 items per day, which meant on that particular Sunday, I was in the 0.0005 percent of subway customers who managed to lose a personal possession on the track.
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Source: VariousMonday was the first night of a shutdown of service on weekend nights this week. Here is a collection of reactions in the news.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA man accused of darting across two sets of subway tracks to punch and seriously injure a straphanger in a Lexington Avenue station has been arrested, police said.
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Source: VariousAfter being named by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, incoming MTA Chair Joseph Lhota faced questioning and a confirmation vote in the NY Senate. Here is coverage.
January 9, 2012
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Source: APAn audit shows NJ Transit took a $297 million loss after Gov. Chris Christie scrapped the Hudson River rail tunnel project in 2010.
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Source: NY Daily NewsWith the contract between the transit workers union and the MTA about to expire, management and labor officials will try to hash out a new three-year deal this week.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceA 39-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was struck by a train while trying to help a drunken man off the tracks in New Dorp early yesterday morning.
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Source: Fox NYAccording to police, a 25-year-old woman was walking up the stairs from the downtown ‘D’ train platform at Kingsbridge Road and Grand Concourse, when the suspect approached her from behind, lifted up her skirt and touched her buttocks.
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Source: NY TimesThose bleating miniature television screens — a standard annoyance of yellow taxi rides — would not be mandatory in the new livery cabs, under a preliminary plan expected to be unveiled in February by the Taxi and Limousine Commission.
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Source: NY TimesNew York City Opera’s future darkened this weekend when the company declared a lockout for the first rehearsal of the season, scheduled for Monday, amid a labor dispute with its unions. The impasse raises the possibility that the struggling company may have to cancel its first production, “La Traviata,” and possibly the season.
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Source: NY TimesAlong with their shameful campaign to curb the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers in Wisconsin and Ohio last year, Republicans in statehouses around the country are taking aim at private sector unions.
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Source: NY Daily NewsStraphangers throughout New York City nonchalantly stripped to their underwear from the waist down Sunday afternoon as part of a global practical joke.
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Source: NY1It is a maddening weekend for subway riders, as 17 of the city's 22 lines are affected by construction and disruption. NY1's Ruschell Boone filed the following report.
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