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November 14, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationPatricia Bowden, president of Transport Workers Union Local 252, talked to reporters after the press conference. She said her members–bus drivers, dispatchers, mechanics and others–face uncertainty in the switch from the NY MTA to Veolia. She added that the union offered to work with Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano to help manage the transition, but were rebuffed.
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Source: WABC 7
The MTA is launching a new plan to get cross-town buses moving along 34th Street.
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Source: NY1The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is changing how it does major track work and will be shutting down subway lines at night for days at a time.
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Source: NY Daily NewsJoseph Lhota, the new head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is calling for stepped-up prosecution of riders who attack transit workers.
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Source: WABC 7PATH trains are up and running after a fire knocked out service for five hours late Saturday night.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNew Select Bus Service on 34th St will speed up traffic — and may mean the thoroughfare doesn’t need to be revamped Janette Sadik-Khan should be prepared to abandon her extreme makeover
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Source: NY PostDefiant Long Island Rail Road smokers lit up as they waited for trains yesterday -- and lit into the new law that prohibits them from puffing on the platform.
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Source: NY PostThe NYPD will soon flood the subway system with dozens of additional decoy officers in an attempt to stem the 16 percent increase the city has seen thus far this year in thefts on trains, The Post has learned.
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Source: BROOKLYN COURIERThe city can’t figure out how high an Avenue M overpass is off the ground, and residents say its confusing warnings — which alert truckers to two different heights on either side of the bridge — are causing cargo carriers to get wedged beneath it on a regular basis.
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Source: NY PostSeven New Yorkers have filed claims totalling $27 million against the city and the MTA for injuries caused by cracked sidewalks on a 14-block span of the Upper East Side, where construction of the Second Avenue Subway is under way.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
Metro-North Trains To Penn Station: MyFoxNY.com
The MTA is doing a study that would bring the Hudson and New Haven lines to the West Side of Manhattan. The line to Penn Station would give commuters an option from the Northern suburbs.
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Source: NY PostThe state Department of Corrections promoted 10 supervisors last week -- as rank-and-file prison workers were being forced to swallow pay freezes and sweat over possibly losing their jobs, The Post has learned.
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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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Source: Mocker / WPIX 11Where is the Efficiency Expert? The job was very important, according to the MTA, when it was created less than a year and a half ago. So why a "no comment" when I find out the job is no more
November 10, 2011
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Source: Atlantic CitiesNew York, meanwhile, is building the most expensive subway line of all time, at $1.7b per km. This figure makes London's 16-km-long Jubilee line and Amsterdam's 10-km North-South line, which both faced delays and controversy and cost $350m and $400m per km, respectively, seem reasonable in comparison.
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Source: The Star-LedgerFour violent attacks on NJ Transit bus drivers in less than three months have prompted the agency to hasten existing efforts to safeguard drivers.
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Source: NY Daily NewsAt least two six-figure salary subway managers have been demoted for allegedly falsifying timekeeping records in a scandal exposing a MTA payroll system that’s vulnerable to fraud, the Daily News has learned.
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Source: NY ObserverYou could hear them a block away; their whistles and chants preceded them. About a hundred protesters stood outside Sotheby’s at the beginning of the auction house’s contemporary evening sale, the last important art sale of the year. ”We’re fired up! Won’t take it no more!” The crowd outside Sotheby’s was made up of N.Y.P.D., the auction house’s security, students from Hunter College, union members and Scabby, the oversize balloon rat who never seems to miss a strike, as well as a Scabby-sized balloon fat cat who squeezed a cigar in one paw and a union worker in the other. Picketers hoisted cutouts of the heads of Sotheby’s COO and CEO at the ends of long poles.
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Source: NY TimesThe victory that repealed a law limiting collective bargaining may not necessarily improve the prospects of unions or the Democrats, their traditional allies, in 2012.
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Source: ABC 7
Bronco Balac says he'll follow the new rule starting Sunday and stop smoking on the platform while he's waiting for his train.
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