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October 13, 2011
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Source: NY TimesSchools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott on Tuesday faced the harshest criticism in the six months since he took the job, as he was chastised at a City Council hearing over his leadership and choices ahead of the layoffs of 672 school support workers last week.
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Source: Transportation NationPresident Obama’s jobs plan may have died in the Senate last night, but that that doesn’t mean debate over a national infrastructure bank died along with it.
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Source: DNAinfoc.omThe intersection at East 33rd Street and Park Avenue, once notorious for pedestrian accidents, has seen a dramatic decrease as a result of multiple safety improvements.
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Source: Transportation NationThe most dangerous intersection in New York City–for those not in cars–is Park Avenue and East 33rd Street. That’s right where a bypass tunnel lets cars back above ground after several blocks of rare traffic signal-free midtown travel.
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Source:An Amtrak train crashed into another train unloading passengers in an Oakland station, leaving 16 people with mainly minor injuries, authorities say.
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Source: Detroit Free PressBudget cuts and a spat between mechanics and Mayor Dave Bing have already crippled bus service in Detroit, leaving frustrated riders waiting, sometimes for hours, at crowded bus stops. But with colossal cuts in suburban service just ahead, the region's transit troubles are about to blow up, stranding and inconveniencing thousands more commuters.
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Source: City RoomIt's four minutes of danger -- riding the subway outside instead of inside -- that makes for a gripping video. The fear is it will lead to copycats.
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Source: DNAinfo.comSelect Bus Service along 34th Street is expected to start in November.
October 12, 2011
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Source: 98.7 Kiss FM / Open LinePres. Samuelsen speaks with Open Line (at 45 mins. into program).
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Source:WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Protests against corporate greed moved Uptown Monday evening as community members gathered on a Washington Heights overpass to call for the end of tight ties between politicians and Wall Street.
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Source: NY1More than two years after a ceiling collapsed at an Upper Manhattan subway station, the MTA says it has finally scheduled repairs for 2012. NY1's Transit Reporter Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: WPIX 11
In a YouTube video shot by shocked straphangers, a man can be seen clinging to the outside of a J train as it hurtles through the tunnel towards Essex Street in Manhattan.
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Source: NY1Sources told NY1 Tuesday that Metropolitan Transportation Authority Vice Chairman Andrew Saul is slated to take the helm of the agency as the search for a new chairman continues.
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Source: Times Herald-RecordThe president of Metro-North Railroad said Tuesday that full service on the Irene-ravaged Port Jervis line could resume sooner than the end of the year — an estimate he made only two weeks ago.
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Source: NBC New YorkUnderstanding the different combinations of the lights has become a sign of a street-savvy New Yorker, but the TLC fears visitors often have trouble navigating the system.
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Source: Journal NewsDrivers who cross the Bear Mountain Bridge will likely pay more for the privilege starting in January.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA former city budget director appears to be the leading candidate to become the next head of the MTA, the Daily News has learned.
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Source: NY Daily NewsTenants of one of the city's biggest owners of rent-stabilized apartments have asked a federal judge to reject a proposed deal their lawyers made with their landlord - Pinnacle Group.
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Source: NY TimesCiting the bridge’s deteriorating condition, the Department of Transportation said it would speed the process for a new $5.2 billion eight-lane bridge.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThey have started to occupy everywhere.
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