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October 5, 2011

  • Alstom bidding on several contracts -
    Source: Hornell Evening Tribune
    Hornell Mayor Shawn Hogan and Jim Griffin, executive director of the Hornell Industrial Development Agency, said the transit giant is submitting “best and final offers” on several contracts, including with the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) in San Francisco.
  • Bus Company Shut After Casino Crash Reappears Under New Name
    Source: NY Times
    The buses from World Wide Travel, which operated the one that crashed in March, killing 15 people, were shifted to a new company, state officials said.
  • MTA, Transit Union Point Fingers Over Delay in New L Train Service
    Source: WNYC
    It's going to take eight months for the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority to add extra weekend service to the over-crowded L train. The MTA and a major transit union are blaming each other for the delay.
  • Gonzalez: Once enemies, now they march
    Source: NY Daily News
    Organized labor will serve notice Wednesday on the bankers and the politicians that the young protesters of Occupy Wall Street speak for millions.
  • Cops Can Arrest Transit Workers Supporting Occupy Wall Street - Courthouse News Service
    Source: Courthouse News Service
    A New York transit union cannot block cops from arresting city bus drivers who refuse to drive Occupy Wall Street protesters to prison, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
  • Editorial: Riding the railroad
    Source: NY Daily News
    The Metropolitan Transportation Authority inspector general has taken up the challenge of investigating the Long Island Rail Road disruption that last week imprisoned thousands on packed trains for four hours and more.
  • Building New York's Future: Transit Investment and Manufacturing Jobs in New York - Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
    Source: Natural Resources Defense Council
    On a trip to New York City last week I rode some of the newest and oldest train lines in the country – the Acela, America’s only high-speed train, from DC to New York, and then the A train from Penn Station out to Brooklyn. As I sweated it out on the subway platform on a hot September day, I remembered that this train, unlike the DC Metro that I ride every day, has been around since the 19th century.
  • PEF: “Informal negotiations” begin with Cuomo
    Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal-News
    Following a week that saw a public employees union reject a contract, triggering 3,496 layoff notices to its members, the union says it is in “informal negotiations” over how to tweak the agreement to get its members’ support.
  • Suicide & tot-slay bid
    Source: NY Post
    A 45-year-old MTA mechanic tried to kill himself and his 2-year-old daughter with pesticides and chemicals found in fire extinguishers because of a bad relationship with his estranged wife, authorities said. Both were in critical condition after the bizarre incident.
  • Bloomy's call for huge cuts irk union officials
    Source: NY Daily News
    Mayor Bloomberg set up another showdown with labor unions and the City Council Tuesday with sweeping budget cuts that could put layoffs back on the table.
  • There’s No ‘I’ In Teamster: Can Union Nice Guy Greg Floyd Alter the 2013 Race?
    Source:
    On a recent weekday morning in Brooklyn, Greg Floyd pulled his black Lincoln Navigator curbside and immediately apologized for his casual clothing. He was wearing a purple Lacoste shirt and blue work pants and was under the mistaken impression that a photographer would be coming to take pictures. The interview was one of the first, tentative steps in Mr. Floyd’s nascent, long-shot campaign to become the leader of the country’s largest metropolis and Mr. Floyd wanted to take The Observer around to the Brooklyn and Queens of his childhood.

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