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January 9, 2012
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Source: South Florida Sun-SentinelThe county's labor strife is far from over. On Wednesday, members of the Transport Workers Union Local 291 rejected a tentative agreement by a vote of 820 to 660. That means further delays as the parties return to the table to haggle over a new agreement.
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Source: WNYCTransit advocates are expressing doubt over the capacity to run an express subway train from midtown Manhattan to a proposed new convention center in Queens. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a non-binding agreement last week to build the world's largest convention center at Aqueduct Racetrack, but details about how conventioneers would get to and from Manhattan are sketchy.
January 6, 2012
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Source: Queens ChronicleBoth sides were sending out encouraging statements last week as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Transit Workers Union Local 100 attempt to reach a new contract.
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Source: Transportation Nation
Andrea Bernstein, director of the public radio Transportation Nation project and senior correspondent for WNYC, discusses Governor Cuomo's proposed "Energy Highway" and the pages he chose not to read while at the podium for the State of State.
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Source: Workday MinnesotaWASHINGTON - Frustrated by roadblocks in the Republican-run Congress, the Obama administration and independent agencies are making good on improving U.S. workplaces by issuing new health, safety and workers’ rights rules.
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Source: NY TimesIt is a longstanding arrangement for the men and women who work on New York City’s transportation system: devote decades of work and labor to the upkeep of bridges, roads and railways, and receive a lifetime of free rides in return.
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Source: NY PostA politically connected small-business owner with close ties to Mayor Bloomberg plans to announce his support for the bill today, while operatives working on the measure are engineering a ramped-up campaign to begin after Martin Luther King Day.
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Source: Capital New YorkAt a press conference [Thursday] afternoon, Mayor Michael Bloomberg effectively washed his hands of any further responsibility for figuring out how to finance the M.T.A., saying he doesn't want to serve as an impediment to Andrew Cuomo and whatever efforts the governor may make to stabilize the finances of the authority upon which the city's, and by extension the state's, economy relies.
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Source: NY1Members of the Transport Workers Union and community leaders rallied in Washington Heights Thursday to call attention to rat infestations in subway stations, a problem that they say is getting worse. NY1’s Amanda Farinacci filed the following report.
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Source: NY PostPA Executive Director Pat Foye announced yesterday that he’s siccing New York and New Jersey tax officials on all 400 litigants in the class-action suit to guarantee that they’ve been paying what they owe on the enviable perk.
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Source: NY Daily NewsTo the right of the Miller family’s Joralemon Street brownstone sits another Brooklyn Heights brownstone - a secret entrance way into an eight-story subterranean vent station connecting to railroad tracks below.
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Source: WPIX 11
Greg Mocker writes: I've talked to Jay Walder monthly about the MTA and the status of our system. Here's what he had to say after he left for the new job in Hong Kong.
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Source: DNAinfo.comCo-op and townhouse owners on a "pristine" block of East 69th Street have banded together, forming a new block association and hiring lawyers to help them fight the MTA’s plans to build new subway entrances for the 6 train on their corners.
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Source: Brooklyn EagleThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which eliminated the B37 and more than a dozen other bus lines across the city in 2010, approved its new budget for 2012 on Dec. 21 and the $12 billion spending package does not include service restorations.
January 5, 2012
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Source: NY Daily NewsThanks to them, New Yorkers do far less damage to the planet than their rural neighbors.
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Source: NY TimesWHEELCHAIR users have long been deprived of a quintessential New York City experience: riding in a taxi. So after years of discussion, litigation and experimentation, the governor and the mayor of New York last month announced a deal to put 2,000 wheelchair-accessible cabs on the streets, setting aside up to $54 million in subsidies and loans to retrofit vehicles for wheelchair use or buy new wheelchair-accessible vehicles.
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Source: Washington PostSubways and railroads say it is not uncommon for the cold to cause issues.
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Source: VariousGovernor Andrew Cuomo gave his annual State of the State speech on Wednesday. Here are highlights.
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Source: VariousFrom the NY Times: “'What I did,' Mr. Walder added, 'was to be able to right that financial basis and to be able to put the system back on firm financial footing.' "Whether this statement can be considered accurate may depend on one’s definition of the word 'firm.'”
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Source: Douglaston, NY PatchCommunity Board 11 leaders said they have been told by the city that a recently removed bus shelter at Northern Boulevard and Douglaston Parkway will be replaced. But CB 11 District Manager Susan Seinfeld told attendees last night at the board’s meeting that the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority had not specified when the shelter would be returned.
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