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January 3, 2012
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Source: Transportation NationStarting on Monday, January 9, New York’s MTA will be suspending all 4/5/6 subway service between Grand Central/42nd Street and Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, in both directions, for four consecutive weeknights, from 10pm to 5am.
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Source: NY TimesIt turns out that the four weekdays after the observed Christmas holiday — along with other ostensibly slow days like the Friday after Thanksgiving — qualified as “minor holidays” this year, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agency has celebrated by running fewer trains during the morning and evening rush.
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Source: Fox 5 NYNassau County unveiled a new bus service Sunday for local riders called the Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE).
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Source: CBS New YorkA fare hike in Connecticut on Metro North’s New Haven line takes effect Jan. 1 and many commuters aren’t happy about the increase.
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Source: NY TimesYet, as more Americans are sensibly leaving their cars at home and opting for the bus or train, mass transit is in deep financial trouble. “We are going over the cliff,” Elliot Sander, chairman of the Regional Plan Association, said recently. “We will be back where we were in the 1970s and 1980s, where the older systems across the country are literally falling apart.”
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Source: NY Daily NewsA HANDFUL of New York City Transit workers have the most coveted jobs on the tracks, getting train loads of overtime without any heavy lifting. They are a select crew of subway structure maintainers who monitor outsourced agency projects like painting the steel columns and beams of elevated lines.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
Subway Riders Brace for Shutdowns of Entire Lines: MyFoxNY.com
New York City subways run 24 hours a day. So what the MTA will start in a week is very different from previous construction service changes. The MTA will completely shut down a subway line in both directions for four nights.
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Source: NY PostThe strong response to a rushed “request for expressions of interest” by the city gives Mayor Bloomberg leverage in his battle to share in the payoff when EmblemHealth, the chief insurer of the city’s hundreds of thousands of current and retired employees, converts from nonprofit to for-profit status.
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Source: Long Island Business NewsThe labor union for more than 800 Nassau County bus service employees, including more than 500 bus drivers, has reached a multiyear labor agreement with bus service operator Veolia Transportation on the Nassau Inter-County Express bus service.
December 30, 2011
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Source: NY PostUnion leaders for the city’s office-building workers are warning that if they don’t reach a new labor pact by tomorrow night, they could strike on New Year’s Day, with workers in a dozen other cities joining in.
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Source: NY PostQ-train service will be suspended north of Prospect Park through Manhattan for seven weekends spanning January and February, the MTA said yesterday.
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Source: NY PostA popular Chinatown bus company that hauls passengers around the East Coast was ordered to shut down by the feds — who called it an “imminent hazard’’ — but the carrier blew off the ruling and was still operating yesterday.
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Source: CBS New YorkPolice are looking for a suspect in the sexual assault of a woman in Springfield Gardens a day before Christmas.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceA New Brighton woman faces misdemeanor charges after police say she attacked a city bus driver during an argument. Police allege Ebone Raysor, 20, of the 300 block of Jersey Street, got into an argument with the driver of an S52 bus in front of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal in St. George on Friday at 11:20 a.m.
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Source: NY TimesNew York City has re-engineered streets with pedestrian plazas, bicycle lanes and time-equipped crosswalk signals in recent years.
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Source: MTA Press ReleaseIn 2011, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) advanced its vision for creating a more efficient and effective transportation network for its 8.5 million daily customers. Despite the fragility of the MTA’s financial situation, the agency was able to maintain its focus on reducing costs and improving service, implementing a series of customer improvements and advancing a four-year financial plan that includes no service cuts. The year was marked by improved customer communications, major construction milestones and, as always, heroic actions by our employees. Some of the highlights from a busy 2011 are below:
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Source: Queens ChronicleProtecting seniors, improving transportation and retaining and creating jobs were among the topics discussed by Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Howard Beach) at his town hall meeting held at the Rockwood Park Jewish Center in Howard Beach last week. […] Goldfeder encouraged audience members to join with their friends and neighbors to sign his online petition to end the Cross Bay Bridge toll. He said he has sent a letter to newly appointed Metropolitan Transportation Authority Executive Director Joseph Lhota, asking him to meet with area residents to personally hear their complaints about the bridge tolls.
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Source: NY TimesThe wheelers are passengers from abroad heading to or getting off the sleek, driverless trains of Kennedy International Airport’s AirTrain, whose ridership has tripled since it opened in 2003. Most travelers are not dawdling in Jamaica itself and are simply connecting to the E, J or Z subway lines or the Long Island Rail Road trains that can whisk them in 20 minutes to Manhattan. But enough linger for the night to encourage three developers in recent years to open budget hotels — a 64-room Ramada, a 72-room Quality Inn and a 66-room Sleep Inn.
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Source: DNAInfo.comA man was struck by a train on the Upper West Side during the morning commute Thursday after a raucous dustup with another straphanger about sleeping on the crowded subway car, witnesses and authorities said.
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Source: WABC 7
Eyewitnesses believe the man was running for a downtown No. 1 train at the 66th Street station when he disappeared after hitting the train doors.
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