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November 21, 2011
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Source: DNAInfo.comCops are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman as she boarded a subway train in SoHo during daytime hours.
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Source: Asbury Park PressA race between two tunnel projects may be starting after Congress sent an appropriations bill that includes $15 million for engineering work for Amtrak’s proposed Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River to President Barack Obama for his signature.
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Source: Times Herald-RecordThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority's new executive director, Joseph Lhota, is putting his management team together.
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Source: NY PostThree days before a construction worker was killed at the MTA’s East Side Access site, a top transit official admitted the agency was worried about the steady rise of injuries at the $7.3 billion project.
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Source: NY TimesIt seemed like a headline from another era: a worker killed while constructing a gargantuan train tunnel 140 feet below the surface of Manhattan.
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Source: Fox 5 NYWith one week to go before Black Friday, a Target employee has racked up 181,000 signatures asking the retailer to abandon its plans to open at midnight, according to the online petition site Change.org.
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Source: NY Daily NewsHere's a just-in statement from ATU Local 1181 President Michael Cordiello
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Source: WABC 7
A 25-year-old confronted an angry man who'd acted disrespectfully towards a woman on the train, actually spitting on her. When the 25-year-old stepped in to stand up for that woman, he suddenly found himself under attack.
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Source: EsquireThe American worker has been getting thrashed for thirty years. Jobs leaving the country, wages flat, his boss getting rich. One coal miner from Pennsylvania knows exactly what to do about it.
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Source: NY PostStanley Tretick’s photos of the Kennedy clan won acclaim, but his heirs say one iconic image was ripped off for the 2008 rededication of the Triborough as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge.
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Source: Transportation NationCongress sent $18 billion in spending for the Department of Transportation to President Obama for a signature Thursday, boosting funds overall — but zeroing out high speed rail.
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Source: NYT > Michael M. GrynbaumA patch of sprayed-on concrete plummeted from the ceiling of a future commuter rail tunnel beneath Park Avenue and struck and killed a man working at the site for three weeks.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA s John Samuelsen readies to negotiate his first contract as president of the Transport Workers Union, the future of the city rides on his willingness to be reasonable.
November 18, 2011
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Source: Various"A young sandhog was killed Thursday night in the collapse of a railroad tunnel deep under Park Ave., despite his father’s heroic efforts to save him"
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe arrest capped a six-month investigation, MTA Inspector General Barry Kluger said. Grimaldi was charged with grand larceny, petit larceny and official misconduct. He faces one to three years in prison if convicted of felony theft.
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Source: Second Avenue Sagas
WeMakeCoolSh.it "L Train Notwork" Behind the Scenes from Matthew McGregor-Mento on Vimeo.
As the MTA works to bring cell service underground, a group of artists in — where else? — Williamsburg have decided to bring a wireless intranet network to the L train every day. The group, called WeMakeCoolSh.it, has been experimenting with their project from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. every day this week in the last two cars of the L train between Morgan Ave. and 8th Ave.
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Source: Transportation Nation. “Climate change impacts are occurring now and will increase in the future,” reads the first line of an FTA report, Flooded Lines and Buckled Rails: Public Transportation and Climate Change Adaptation, released in August. “Aggressive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will lower the severity of climate change impacts. Yet the amount of long-lived emissions already in the atmosphere means that a significant level of climate change is inevitable.”
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Source: Transportation NationThe bill funds DOT programs until October 1, 2012, the end of the 2012 fiscal year. The $17.8 billion final price tag is about $4 billion over what the agency got last year, but nearly $15 billion less than what the White House had requested. The figure does not include nearly $40 billion for highway programs and the Highway Trust Fund. The latter is funded mostly from federal gasoline taxes, not general revenue.
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Source: Opinionator / NY Times"Conventional wisdom says that the way to create or improve public transit is to invest billions to engineer rails, trains and buses. But the Brunswick Explorer is one of many innovators that are seeing transit as more than an engineering problem and trying to build transit that meets the needs of its residents. "
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Source: The Star-LedgerEngineering work can begin on the proposed Gateway train tunnel under the Hudson River — an alternative to the ARC tunnel canceled last year by Gov. Chris Christie — now that Congress has approved $15 million toward the project.
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