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January 5, 2012
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceLast month, City Councilman Vincent Ignizio, (R-South Shore), MTA executive director Joe Lhota and New York City Transit (NYCT) president Thomas F. Pendergast announced the launch of an X22A bus line – a cost-neutral version of the X22, which will transport folks on the South Shore to Midtown. The pilot line will begin running on Monday, Jan. 30, and will consist of four trips in the morning, and another four in the evening via the current X22 route from Page Avenue and Hylan Boulevard in Tottenville to the Outerbridge Park-and-Ride.
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Source: Queens CourierThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is continuing its efforts to improve customer communications with the introduction of the Winter Weather Guide. Harsh winter weather may prevent some MTA services from operating normally, so the MTA has created a colorful and informative poster designed to alert riders to foul weather service changes. The new Winter Weather Guide explains service adjustments for MTA New York City Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, Staten Island Railway and Bridges & Tunnels. This service poster is available for viewing online and posted in subway and rail stations.
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Source: Press-RepublicanBombardier Transportation has implemented a temporary layoff of 105 employees at its Plattsburgh assembly plant.
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Source: GlobeSt.comNEW YORK CITY-Despite wild weather, budget deficits and other events in 2011, work on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s four megaprojects hasn’t slowed down yet. According to the MTA, the 7 subway line extension, the Fulton Street Transit Center, the Second Avenue subway and East Side LIRR access are all on track for their scheduled completions.
January 4, 2012
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Source: NY PostAn article and editorial attack bus operators.
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Source: MetroYou’re not the only one making ambitious New Year’s resolutions: The new head of the MTA has some lofty goals, too. Joe Lhota, who will officially take the helm of the cash-strapped agency this year, promised he won’t cut any service during his tenure, or raise fares this year.
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Source: MetroForget Secaucus. If Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s dream to extend the 7-train to New Jersey is ever realized, the subway should stop in Hoboken, said one former MTA planner.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA plan to transform an abandoned rail line into a park in southern Queens is generating a lot of buzz, but a group of transit advocates has another vision.
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Source: WNYC
Jim O'Grady, WNYC's transit reporter, talks about New York City's abandoned subway stations.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityThis is the B69 stop at Vanderbilt and Atlantic, a stone’s throw from where Forest City Ratner and the Empire State Development Corporation want to build an enormous surface parking lot, beckoning people to drive to the new Barclays Center arena. The motorist who slammed into this pole had to drive across the Vanderbilt Avenue bike lane before wrecking city property. NYPD’s public information office had no details about the incident, which indicates that any bus riders or cyclists present at the time of the crash escaped with their lives intact.
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Source: WNBC 4
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A 15-year-old Staten Island girl who relatives said had been bullied was carrying a suicide note when she was struck by a bus, police say. Amanda Cummings' uncle said she was tormented by bullies at school. Roseanne Colletti reports.
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Source: Streetsblog.net2011 was a tough year for transit. Local agencies, still hurting from the recession, continued to slash bus routes and raise fares. There were a few bright spots in an otherwise gloomy landscape, however, not the least of which was U.S. DOT’s TIGER program. Thanks to federal investments like that, and strong local support in many regions, a healthy number of local transit agencies will break ground or finish construction on major projects in 2012.
January 3, 2012
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Source: Crain'sTake an underused, run-down building in the heart of downtown Brooklyn that has bedeviled officials for years. Combine it with a top local university willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to turn it into a job-creating tech campus.
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Source: NY TimesA Republican-dominated legislature is pushing for a right-to-work law, which would allow a worker to choose not to pay union dues despite being covered by a union contract.
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Source: NY Daily NewsCongress just handed mass-transit riders a tax hike that could cost many commuters more than $400. Thanks a lot.
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Source: NY Post
Scores of MTA bus drivers spent a happy holiday week at their garages, collecting paychecks for playing chess and dominos and watching TV because the agency cut service — to save money.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe subway conductor who slugged a rider for putting his feet on the seat has been barred from working on trains that carry passengers while the MTA investigates, an agency spokeswoman said.
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Source: WNYCThe New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, making it the largest in North America. And there’s even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used. They form a kind of ghost system that reveals how the city’s transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA heavily armed South Carolina man was arrested after allegedly jumping the turnstile at a Times Square subway station late Sunday afternoon.
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Source: NY Daily NewsAn arbitration panel has ruled that 700 employees of Long Island Bus, a branch of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, will have to go without raises for 2011. The decision meant breaking the contract pattern established for other MTA workers, who received 3% bumps last year.
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