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October 20, 2011
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Source: City Room / NY TimesPatrick J. Foye's appointment comes as the governor seeks a significant expansion of the authority's portfolio.
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Source: NY TimesGeorge Cohen once served as outside counsel to the professional baseball, basketball and hockey players associations, and his father was a New York sports journalist for 48 years.
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Source: NY1Governor Andrew Cuomo will soon name a new MTA chairman, and officials and commuters alike say that whoever takes the position next will be faced with several challenges, most notably from an ailing budget.
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Source: NY PostElectric cars are fine for traipsing to Whole Foods or dropping the kids off at school, but city officials plan to put the eco-friendly vehicles through the ultimate auto obstacle course -- navigating the streets of New York as a yellow cab.
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Source: NY TimesTwo New York City taxi medallions changed hands in the highest recorded sale since the city's modern livery system began.
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Source: Christian Science MonitorThe vote to finally accept the contract, agreed to by 63 percent of its 41,000 members, resulted in a harsh reality check – the recognition that an increase in labor costs today might shrink union membership in the future.
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Source: Associated PressA ballot battle over whether to keep Ohio's tough new restrictions on public employee unions could give labor supporters and Democrats a lift going into the presidential election year. But some Democrats fear losing the Nov. 8 referendum could be another dispiriting setback that saps enthusiasm from the party's progressive base.
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Source: NY1Elected officials spoke up Wednesday about a lawsuit against the city over the Taxi of Tomorrow, which is not accessible for wheelchair users.
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Source: Fastlane / Department of TransportationThis week Washington, DC, hosted Rail-Volution 2011, a conference for people "who want to engage in thoughtful discussion about building livable communities with transit." And Tuesday, it was my great pleasure to share the conference podium with two of the best friends the transit community in the U.S. ever had, Rep. Earl Blumenauer and Bill Millar, the outgoing president of the American Public Transit Association.
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Source: NY TimesAn article in a Columbia Journalism School publication has prompted a review of the B110 line in Brooklyn, on which women are to ride in the back.
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Source: Star-LedgerPublic transportation agency leads the country in smart phone integration
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Bloomberg says suit to add handicapped-accessible cabs unfair to 'average' riders, wastes gas, moneySource: NY Daily NewsMayor Bloomberg Wednesday ushed off the feds' effort to make more cabs handicapped-accessible - saying it would inconvenience able-bodied passengers. "Their suspension is much worse, so the average person riding in them finds them really uncomfortable," Hizzoner explained.
October 19, 2011
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Source: AFL-CIO Now
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignMany workers in the region who take advantage of commuter tax benefits could be out in the cold next year. Federal law allows workers to use pretax income to cover the cost of commuting, up to a limit of $230/month for parking and $230/month for public transportation (or $20/month for bicycle-related expenses). But this equality between parking and public transit may be short-lived, since the law which increased the transit benefit is set to expire next year. If that occurs, transit riders will be unable to set aside more than $120/month for commuting costs.
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Source: NY1The federal government is doling out more than $100 million to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and will go toward the purchase of new buses, a new command center and other improvements.
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Source: NY PostFelonies rose on New York’s commuter rail system by 6 percent so far this year over 2010 with thefts of electronic gadgets accounting for most of the rising crime, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said in its latest monthly report.
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Source: State of Politics / Journal-NewsA report from an environmental group that was critical of Senate Republicans’ efforts to repeal the MTA payroll tax has struck a nerve with the state’s Republican Party chairman, who issued a statement today blasting the tax and those who voted to put it in place.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSo you've been named chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, putting you in charge of the biggest transit system in the Western Hemisphere. What do you do now?
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Source: Wall Street JournalA year's worth of data analyzed by The Wall Street Journal shows how people move around the city, and how a 7.5% fare increase changed habits.
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Source: CBS New YorkTransportation For America has released a report reviewing the state of our nation’s bridges, and its findings about the bridges in our area are sure to raise eyebrows.
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