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December 14, 2011
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Source: NY1City elementary kids say the new exhibit at the Transit Museum is not only electrifying, but also a good tool for prepping for their state exams. NY1's Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: OSHA Press ReleaseThe U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited three contractors for a total of 21 alleged violations of workplace safety standards at a work site in the Bronx. They are Arberia & Associates General Contractors Inc., the project's Manhattan-based general contractor; and carpentry subcontractor K&G Haxhari Construction and masonry subcontractor Mondi Construction Inc., both of the Bronx. Proposed penalties total $71,340.
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Source: WABC 7
anhattan's High Line park has been a big success, and now community organizers in Queens want to do the same thing. They are looking to convert old LIRR rails into trails.
December 13, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationFollowing up on the first two pieces of his economic package passed last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo today signed into law a $250 million cut to the MTA payroll tax. The tax had been a consistent target of suburban lawmakers.
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Source: NewsdayNassau lawmakers Monday unanimously approved County Executive Edward Mangano's plan to shift county bus service to a private operator from the MTA . After hearing from worried riders and drivers last week, and despite questions about an ownership change, the county legislature voted 18-0 in favor of Nassau's contract with Veolia Transportation of Lombard, Ill.
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Source: NewsdayA mailing is in the works from the Senate Republicans highlighting last week's action to slash the MTA payroll tax for many of those who have been subject to it since its introduction a couple of years ago, party officials say. The message could have popular impact on Long Island, regardless of continued caterwauling from News Corp. headquarters in Manhattan (click here). Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) has stated the position that All people will be [taxed] below the level that the Democrats imposed." On the ground, in the 2010 race, the pesky MTA tax became a focal point for the campaign in which Lee Zeldin took back the 3rd S.D. in Suffolk from the Democrats by defeating incumbent Brian Foley, who'd voted for the levy. It was also turned into a symbol of Democrats' one-term control of the upper house in other districts in a year when Nassau's Craig Johnson also was unseated, in the 7th S.D., by Republican Jack Martins. GOP sources say that last week's legislative measures to snip income tax rates for most middle-class filers will also be part of the message. All 212 state legislative seats are open to be voted on next November in newly drawn districts.
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Source: Letters - NY Daily NewsI would like to add my two cents to Voicer Steve Yanowsky’s comment about the rats at his subway stations. I am sorry to hear that he has to share his morning and evening commutes with the rats. But the rats would not be on the platforms if his fellow commuters would put their garbage in the proper place. You know , like in those big black tubular things on every platform. I do believe the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a no - littering law. But people do not obey that rule. The transit authority has tried its best to accommodate its riders, but some of the riders just don’t care. I am a cleaner for Transit, and I do my best to keep the station that I am assigned to clean. But there are always a couple of people who just are plain nasty. So please don’t blame Transit, or its cleaners. Blame your fellow riders. Tiffany Fuller, station cleaner
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe MTA’s final 2012 budget plan won’t restore any of the bus or subway service officials eliminated last year, sources said Monday.
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Source: Brooklyn Daily EagleA print and online ad campaign made its debut Monday in support of NYU’s bid for a “super school” of applied sciences inside the old MTA office building on 370 Jay St. The ads, with slogans like “Brooklyn’s Got Heart,” “Brooklyn’s Got Muscle,” and “Brooklyn’s Got Brains,” are paid for by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and DUMBO Improvement District, with support from the Borough President’s Office.
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Source: City Room / NY TimesOn Monday, the Henry Hudson Bridge – that triumphalist crossing over the Harlem River, a steel archway slicing through a verdant vista of water, trees and cliffs – celebrates its diamond anniversary, the 75th. And like many older citizens of New York City, the bridge has had its share of wear-and-tear.
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Source: WPIX 11Livery cab drivers from across the city occupied Midtown this morning in protest of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's failure to sign a bill that would legalize livery cab hails in the city. Drivers circled the governor's office on Third Avenue and 41st Street Monday morning, in hopes of changing his mind.
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Source: Politics on the HudsonAbout 39,400 businesses in the Hudson Valley will no longer have to pay a payroll tax for being located in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority service region, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today.
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Source: StreetsblogAlbany’s latest raid of transit funds could hit New York City particularly hard. To help pay for his upper-middle-class tax cut, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature are stripping an estimated $320 million a year in revenues from the MTA payroll tax. Although the legislation is said to contain a pledge to find equivalent funds elsewhere, the as-yet unspecified reimbursement mechanism is likely to make the transit agency more vulnerable to future cuts, as Streetsblog noted last week.The potential deterioration in service could easily end up costing drivers and transit riders more in lost time and damaged health than they will gain in lower taxes.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA man was struck and injured by an N train at the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station shortly before noon Monday, authorities said.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceCouncilman Vincent Ignizio, MTA Executive Director Joe Lhota and New York City Transit President Thomas F. Prendergast announced a January launch of an X22A bus line -- a cost-neutral version of the X22, which will express to midtown.
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Source: Streetsblog New York CityA new crop of bus routes is moving into the pipeline for implementation as Select Bus Service. The MTA and NYC DOT are in the initial stages of bringing SBS to the Bronx’s Webster Avenue, where the most unreliable bus in the borough runs, and to Brooklyn’s Utica Avenue, the second-busiest bus route in the city.
December 12, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Bronx boasts the three slowest bus routes in the city outside of Manhattan, according to a new survey by transit advocates. But the agency could be shifting gears, with the borough's voice growing louder at MTA headquarters. The City Council Transportation Committee chairman, two board members and even new MTA executive director Joseph Lhota boast Bronx ties.
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Source: Brooklyn DailyA perfect storm of selfish litterbugs, a construction project moving at a snail’s pace, and the removal of public garbage cans in Bensonhurst has turned New Utrecht Avenue into a litter-strewn rodent magnet, say residents who are demanding the MTA put the rehabilitation of the D line on the fast track so they can finally get some relief.
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Source: MetroFocusLOSERS: Joe Lhota — Maybe Cuomo really is just more of a car guy. As the new MTA chief, Lhota’s already tough job suddenly got tougher thanks to the elimination of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the cash-strapped agency. Cuomo, Lhota’s boss, decided to scale back the MTA payroll tax, which was unpopular in the city’s suburbs, to help ram through the other pieces of his big tax overhaul. Though the governor has promised that the funding will be made up elsewhere, for now Lhota has even less to work with as he tries to scrape up the cash to fund the MTA’s five-year capital plan.
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Source: Transportation Nation[T]he idea of a broke state government being the guarantor of transit funds has left straphangers advocates uneasy.
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