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October 6, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationIt’s been long suspected that Cuomo — who is known to trust a relatively tight inner-circle of advisers — would let Ward go after the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. (The Port Authority owns the World Trade Center site, in addition to three area airports, several Hudson River crossings, and the PATH commuter train to New Jersey.)
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Source: NY Times
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Source: AFL-CIO NowOccupy Wall Street has captured the imagination and passion of millions of Americans who have lost hope that our nation’s policymakers are speaking for them. We support the protesters in their determination to hold Wall Street accountable and create good jobs.
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Source: NY TimesA federal judge ruled that a court-appointed authority would be installed to ensure that more minority candidates are hired at the New York Fire Department.
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Source: NY PostThe busy section of the 7 train connecting Long Island City to Times Square will be shut down for five weekends over the next two months, the latest in a slew of service outages. The first weekend closure begins from tomorrow at 11:30 p.m. to 5 a.m.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe protesters behind Occupy Wall Street and their supporters, of which I am one, share a gut feeling of utter disgust, rage and frustration at the havoc our nation's policies, from Washington to Wall Street, have wreaked not only on this current economy, but on hope of a more stable, widespread fin
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceBadly needed structural repairs to four railway stations on Staten Island could be fast-tracked if President Barack Obama's American Jobs Act is passed.
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Source: NY PostThe number of New York residents on the state Medicaid rolls has skyrocketed by 700,000 since 2009 -- a sure sign of a stubbornly stalled economy, officials said yesterday. The number of Medicaid patients statewide increased to a record 5 million in July of this year from 4.3...
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Source: NY TimesThe Bloomberg administration and District Council 37 bitterly dispute the circumstances leading to the impending termination of 700 low-paid workers.
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Source: Crain's New York BusinessOrganized labor and advocacy groups are infusing the “Occupy Wall Street” protest at Zuccotti Park with masses of people, but also new agendas. Will it backfire?
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Source: ABC New YorkPolice are searching for five suspects in a series of robberies at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan.
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Source: NY1Rats are out in full force on the subway platform at the 86th and Central Park West station, exposing one possible side effect of last year's cuts to the MTA's cleaning staff, but officials now say that a new cleanup program may help solve the problem. NY1’s Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: NY PostUpper East Siders are in a lather over plans to add subway entrances to tony East 69th Street -- with some angrily accusing the MTA of using the American with Disabilities Act as a tool to mar their historic block.
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Source: Columbia SpectatorThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning a renovation of the No. 1 train station that services New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center. Although still in the planning stage, the project is slated to begin in December and wrap up before the end of 2014, according to a MTA representative.
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Source: NY Daily News"It's an epic march," said John Samuelson, President of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, who put a call out to his 35,000 bus and subway workers urging them to march Wednesday.
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Unions join Wall Street protests from The New York World on Vimeo.
As the Metropolitan Transit Authority is about to embark on the largest borrowing program in its history, the Transit Workers Union has decided to take up its megaphone and question just how much money Wall Street is making off the MTA’s debt.
October 5, 2011
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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The Last Word speaks with Local 100 President John Samuelsen.
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Source: Huffington Post
According to comments made Tuesday by its chief Forrest Claypool, the Chicago Transit Authority is on the brink of a $277 million projected budget deficit by 2012.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA suspicious package on a city bus shut down traffic along Seventh Avenue from 51st to 48th Streets for more than an hour on Tuesday morning.
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Source: CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Getting customer service information from the MTA is about to get a little bit easier.
In an effort to streamline and simply the way customers interact with the transit agency, the MTA says it has consolidated 117 phone numbers into just one — 511.
While 511 has already been in use for New Yorkers to get information on roads and bridges, traffic and congestion, ferries and public transportation run by other agencies, the number will now also direct MTA customers to an interactive voice system to get travel info for all of its agencies.
Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the MTA, spoke with 1010 WINS on Tuesday and declared the new number “simply makes it easier to get to where you need to go.”
“You don’t need to press any touch tone phones, you can just speak right to it. You can always — if it’s speaking to you — you can interrupt it. It will direct the caller to the most appropriate way to get to the right department or the right person,” Donovan said.
Donovan added that everything from schedules to fares to ticketing and lost and found information will be available through 511 or 511NY.org.
The service will operate and be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Do you think this will make things easier on MTA customers? Share your thoughts in the comments section…
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