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September 29, 2011
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Source: Fox 5 NYThe Accessible Pedestrian Signals are already fixed to pedestrian signal poles at 21 intersections citywide, emitting a distinct clicking sound to alert sight-impaired pedestrians when the "walk" phase is available at a given intersection.
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Source: NY PostA veteran Bronx cop who tried to kill himself two weeks ago by touching the third-rail because he was stressed about having to rat out his colleagues in the ticket fixing scandal has been re-admitted to a psych ward after going missing, sources told The Post.
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Source: MetroMTA Chairman Jay Walder held court for the last time yesterday at his final MTA board meeting before he departs next month. […] Metro reflected on Walder's tenure:
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Source:The decision comes as layoff notices are sent to the first of 3,496 employees that New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo vowed to cut.
September 28, 2011
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Source:The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is embarking on a grand plan to boost crosstown bus service on Manhattan's 34th St. through dedicated lanes and pay-before-boarding fare collection. Godspeed to the route's long-crawling passengers.
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Source: NewsdayHundreds of layoffs are looming in the next few weeks for Nassau County employees.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceThe motorists' group filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceOfficials say 1,000 subway riders have been victims of larceny this year through August. That's a jump from 787 during the same period in 2010.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceReports to 311 result in dropped cases, without DEP, the agency responsible for such repairs, being informed
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Source: Albany Times UnionThe Capital District Transportation Authority is inviting riders to wear red on Friday as part of a national advocacy campaign to oppose cuts by Congress to funding for public transit. The Don't X Out Public Transit campaign is intended to raise awareness of the proposed cuts and the role that public transit plays in helping people get to and from their jobs.
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Source: Transportation NationThe New York MTA says it will cost $50 million to repair a rail line in Rockland and Orange counties that was badly damaged by Tropical Storm Irene.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowYesterday, President Obama was in Colorado highlighting his plan to put Americans back to work modernizing the nation’s aging schools and to make sure there are plenty of teachers to fill those schools. The plan involves $30 billion to put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work modernizing at least 35,000 schools across the country, and $35 billion to save the jobs of 280,000 teachers, police, firefighters and other first responders.
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Source: Times Herald-RecordNew Jersey Transit trains through Newark are facing scattered delays because of switch and signal problems, but normal service is expected for the morning commute.
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Source: NY PostA blogger whose subway ad -- calling enemies of Israel “savage” -- was rejected by the MTA said yesterday she has filed a lawsuit against the agency. Pamela Geller -- head of the American Freedom Defense Initiative -- claims it violated her First Amendment rights.
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Source: NY PostTwo Brooklyn community groups have organized volunteers to meet women at subway stations to counter a recent string of sexual assaults.
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Source: NY PostEven after shelling out more than $140 million to update emergency communications in the subways, the system still does not allow cops, firefighters and MTA personnel to talk to each other directly.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasOver a year later, the MTA has unveiled its findings on the impact of the service cuts, and the claims are fairly sweeping. First, as I’ve noted in the past, bus ridership has suffered the most. In the wake of the cuts, it’s down across every borough. In fact, subway ridership increased in the year following the cuts by approximately 0.3 percent, but bus ridership declined significantly. The MTA says the economy, demographics changes and fare hikes may be to blame, but as bus routes have become longer and more circuitous and frequency diminished, ridership will flee for more reliable and speedier routes.
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Source: Mocker / WPIX 11Interesting timing of things. It is helpful to have cell service on the platforms. But we have to be careful when we whip out those cell phones on the platforms. Thefts are up about 17%.
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Source: In These TimesIn a memo this month to leaders of TSA locals, AFGE Chief of Staff Brian DeWyngaert described TSA's commitment to fulfill employees' new collective bargaining rights (the government's decision to grant these rights is called a "Determination"; before this year, TSA did not have the right to join a union). “In general, it is apparent that despite our best hopes that TSA would move quickly to fulfill the Determination’s outline for a collaborative relationship, the TSA managers around Pistole responsible for implementing the Determination appear to be dragging their feet and being anything but collaborative”, DeWyngaert says.
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Source:A $27 million redesign would transform the square’s raw, concrete pedestrian plazas into sleek silver-gray spaces populated by slablike benches and metallic tiles.
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