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December 1, 2011
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Source: WFAAFORT WORTH — American Airlines employees are still adjusting to what they call a "kick in the gut." Bankruptcy has put all labor contract talks on hold, and workers are fearing layoffs, pay cuts and reduced benefits. More than 3,000 Transport Workers Union members in North Texas are now wondering about retirement, mortgages, and feeding their families.
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November 30, 2011
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Source: TWU.orgWe are very disappointed by today’s action by AMR. The Transport Workers Union will do everything possible to protect our members at both American Airlines and American Eagle. Work at both airlines will continue through the Chapter 11 reorganization.
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Source: VariousNYC DOT is using signs with haiku and illustrations to promote street safety. A roundup.
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Source: Brooklyn DailyThe feds are pulling the plug on a vital, and long-promised, overhaul of a crumbling portion of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, saying that fixing the borough’s transportation artery is just too expensive.
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Source: NY TimesTo replace those painted plywood sheds supported by pipes and protruding bolts that can rip pedestrians’ coat sleeves, a team consisting of Young-Hwan Choi, Andres Cortes and Sarrah Kahn from Agencie Group, a design firm based in New York, gracefully melded recycled steel and translucent plastic panels into a structure that resembles an open umbrella.
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Source: The Asbury Park PressA suit to block the Garden State Parkway widening by a transportation watchdog and advocacy group has been settled and one condition might bring more park-and-rides to the Parkway.
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Source: VariousPort Authority landed in hot water over statements that toll increases would finance the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.
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Source: PoliticoNational news related to transportation.
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Source: Transportation Nation
Every day, more than 700,000 people pass through Grand Central Terminal in New York City. WNYC took a VIP tour to discover some secrets and little-known facts about this iconic train station.
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Source: NY Daily NewsBagpipes and drums sounded in the Times Square subway hub Tuesday morning as a veteran transit detective pushed through the turnstiles to retirement.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Taxi and Limousine Commission launched a new pilot program to prevent unlicensed drivers from picking up hails at the busy transit hub by installing a dispatch kiosk near the main exit of the station.
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Source: Second Avenue Sagas"The MTA has effectively cut off its station booth nose to spite its face."
November 29, 2011
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Source: Wall Street JournalGov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said his administration is considering the idea of raising investment capital from union pension funds to help finance the reconstruction of the Tappan Zee Bridge, but he distanced himself from earlier comments by saying he's not eyeing the state's pension fund as a source of infrastructure financing.
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Source: WNYCMark Barrett is wiry — muscular but lean — with tattoos up his left arm and sideburns that reach almost to his chin. The tools on his belt clink as he calls to his father, Tony Barrett, standing nearby. Father and son are part of a crew of tunnel workers — sandhogs, they’re called — mining a tunnel for New York City’s new 2nd Avenue Subway line.
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Source: The Island NowState Sen. Jack Martins blamed New York City legislators for preventing the repeal of the MTA payroll tax at a civic association meeting in New Hyde Park last week, but predicted Gov. Andrew Cuomo will assist in eliminating the tax in the coming year.
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Source: DealBook / NY TimesThe AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, said on Tuesday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection in an effort to reduce labor costs and shed a heavy debt burden.
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Source: NY Times"[O]nce solidly middle-class African-American government workers — bus drivers in Chicago, police officers and firefighters in Cleveland, nurses and doctors in Florida — …have been laid off since the recession ended in June 2009. Such job losses have blunted gains made in employment and wealth during the previous decade and undermined the stability of neighborhoods where there are now fewer black professionals who own homes or who get up every morning to go to work."
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Source: NY TimesThree months after Tropical Storm Irene dismantled 14 miles of the Port Jervis train line, turning parts of the tracks traversing Orange and Rockland Counties into mangled piles of debris, Metro-North Railroad officials restored service on Monday, one month ahead of schedule.
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Source: ForbesNew York City’s subway lines – the engines that keep the city’s real estate market moving – are notoriously expensive to build. Tunneling projects in New York routinely clock in at five to ten times the cost of their Asian and European counterparts, putting the city’s measly 20-30% aboveground union construction premiums to shame. New York has finally restarted work on the century-in-the-making Second Avenue Subway, but MTA capital construction president Michael Horodniceanu says that anything beyond the initial Upper East Side segment “will be for our children or grandchildren.” And Bloomberg’s 7 train to Secaucus, or those fabled Utica and Nostrand extensions? Keep dreaming.
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Source: Sheepshead Bites via Transit BloggerTransit Blogger collects and introduces a three part series on the changes in NYC MTA bus service since 1978 by former MTA/NYC Transit Bus Planning Director Allan Rosen: "I was browsing for transit related news when I happened to stumble on a fascinating 3 part look into MTA bus route planning which was written by former Director of MTA/NYC Transit Bus Planning (1981) Allan Rosen. The first part takes a look at the back story of the 1978 bus route changes in Southwest Brooklyn [;] Part 2 takes a look at how their current bus planning ways are leading to a disaster [;] The 3rd & final installment takes a look at what steps the MTA must take in order to prevent destroying local bus service."
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