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November 16, 2011
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Source: Associated Press, NY1, NY Daily News, NY Post, Transportation NationCoverage of the opening of contract talks between Local 100 and MTA management.
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Source: DNAinfo.comWhile some passengers were already familiar with the new buses, which use pre-boarding fare collection machines to speed up the boarding process instead of allowing users to pay with MetroCards inside the bus, others were confused by the system, which officially rolled into service Sunday.
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Source: New York PostThe MTA’s widely ballyhooed plan to remove trash cans from certain subway stations — to cut the amount of garbage generated and fight a stubborn rat problem — appears to be working, officials said yesterday.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceBorough lawmakers are looking to open a new front in the battle against the ramped-up tolls on the Port Authority's three bridges here, a bid that is being thrown down like a gauntlet to the Legislature and to Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie.
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Source: NY PostA 2002 state law made assault on a bus or subway employee a Class D felony, with a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. But in the last four years, while more than 100 suspects were charged under the law, just two dozen were convicted, none received the maximum penalty and only seven spent as much as a year behind bars.
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Source: NY1Crime is on the rise underground, and on Monday the MTA Board grilled transit police over why that was so, and why riders are more likely to be targeted during daytime. NY1's Transit reporter Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: NY PostThe transit agency’s most glamorous board member, Nancy Shevell, skipped the boring old MTA committee meeting yesterday after a weekend of globetrotting with hubby Paul McCartney.
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Source: WNYC
President of Transport Workers Union Local 100, John Samuelsen talks about the start of contract negotiations with the MTA.
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Source: Epoch TimesTransportation agencies are becoming more efficient through increased productivity and better use of their resources, said officials from three of the agencies on Monday.
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Source: Transportation NationOn his first day as Executive Director of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Joe Lhota made a symbolic gesture of solidarity with transit workers, according to the union that represents them.
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Source: NY Daily NewsHundreds of thousands of subway riders will be forced to take detours next year but officials insist the delays will be minimal.
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Source: Times Herald-RecordA new financial consultant is being hired to advise the state on how to raise an estimated $5.2 billion to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge.
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Source: Transportation NationSoon after Andrew Cuomo won the governor’s seat last year, he visited the Tappan Zee Bridge. Built in the 1950s, the structure was considered at the end of its useful life. With the rusting three-mile span as a backdrop, the then-governor-elect mused about its future. “Could you actually improve transportation in the region with a replacement bridge that could include rail, for example,” he said. “The flip side is the cost of a new bridge, the planning, the delay, so those are issues that are going to have to be weighed.” That was about a year ago.
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Source: NY TimesJoseph J. Lhota, who started this week as the new chief of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has said little about his plans for the troubled agency.
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Source: CBS New York
Police in Queens are hunting for three suspects they say are wanted for a vicious assault on a subway train that was captured on video.
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Source: DNAInfo.comThe Department of Transportation has rejected a proposal from Baruch College to turn a chunk of East 25th Street into a pedestrian plaza.
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Source: Long Island PressWith just six weeks before a controversial public transit privatization plan is set to take hold, the Nassau Legislature postponed a long-awaited public hearing on the multi-million-dollar contract to turn over the county’s bus service to Veolia Transportation, a private company based in Illinois.
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Source: GawkerIn its infinite wisdom, the New York City Transit system has decided to stop shutting down the subways for repairs every weekend, and start shutting down the subways for repairs every weeknight. How will this affect you, the straphanger, and the "new breed" of trained subway thieves that prowl the trains to prey on you? Allow us to help you make sense of the new, improved New York Subway system.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSmith Electric Vehicles will establish a clean technology manufacturing facility in the Bronx that's expected to create more than 100 new jobs, Gov. Cuomo's office says.
November 14, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsMassive blitzes by workers inspecting, fixing and replacing equipment like signals and switches will result in overnight closures of Manhattan subway lines beginning early next year.
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