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September 13, 2011
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Source: PoliticoThe measure, expected on the House floor Tuesday, also temporarily extends funding for highways.
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Source: Transportation NationNew York City is expected to announce the selection of a vendor to run its 10,000-bike bike share system sometime this week. The city has been promising it would announce the selection of a vendor in summer, 2011 — which, by the calendar, if not convention, ends next week.
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Source: NY Daily NewsAlicia, a 17-year-old high school senior with a chip on her shoulder, didn't have time for silly questions, especially from a stranger asking about kids jumping turnstiles.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasIf any frequently complaint about the New York City subways holds water, it is the one about the smells. Throughout the city, the subways often smell really bad, and it has become a part of the city’s collective identity. Maybe it shouldn’t be though.
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Source: NY TimesThe Seattle City Council voted Monday to require employers with five or more workers to provide paid sick days.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperProfessors at Long Island University have accepted a new contract in a compromise that ends a six-day strike and will return teachers to classroom duty on the Downtown campus today.
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Source: NY1Members of the Transport Workers Union claim that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority isn't holding up its end of the health care bargain, leading to complications when it comes to paying for much-needed treatments.
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Source: NY Daily NewsHere's what a brazenly cynical politician does when all the newspapers - including this one - turn thumbs down on endorsing him. He fabricates a newspaper, writes up a stamp of approval that cuts opponents to ribbons and plasters the district with flyers on the eve of the election.
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Source: WNYCThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority is getting ready to invest millions of dollars to repair the Port Jervis train line on the western side of the Hudson River. The authority is paying an engineering firm $500,000 to figure out how to repair damage from Tropical Storm Irene.
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Source: Long Island Business NewsA lawsuit challenging the legality of the MTA Payroll Tax will be heard in Nassau County, not Albany, the courts have ruled.
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Source:Straphangers at the J train subway station where a woman was bit on the foot by a rat last week said they were not surprised that it happened, considering the number of rodents, pigeons and trash they regularly spot there.
September 12, 2011
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Source: NY1The Fulton Street Transit Center is no longer just a series of subway stations, and it will certainly look like much more when it’s finished in three years.
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Source: Streetsblog DCWhen the President unveiled his ambitious $556 billion transportation agenda last February, he let his Transportation Secretary twist in the wind as Congress demanded to know how the thing was going to be paid for. All LaHood would say, for months, was that he looked forward to working with Congress on it. This time, Obama’s leaving the funding question to the bipartisan “super committee” formed as part of the debt ceiling/deficit reduction deal this summer, which just started work and is already beginning to fracture. That committee is already tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in cuts, which was a tall order for a group that can’t seem to agree on what to order for lunch. Now Obama’s asking them to find more.
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Source: Transportation NationFitch Ratings says the authority won’t be getting the extra revenue it needs to pay off the $4.7 billion it wants to borrow to help plug a $10 billion gap in its capital construction program. Result: Fitch, the smallest of the three ratings agencies, is downgrading the authority’s debt from “A+” to “A.”
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Source: In These TimesThe window for immediate decertification was closed by one of three union-friendly NLRB decisions on August 26 that overturned Bush-era policies and were seen as victories for labor in the final days of NLRB chairman Wilma Liebman’s term. (The Clinton appointee, widely supported by unions, was reappointed by President Bush and named chairman by President Obama in 2009, and drew much fire from business groups.)
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Source: Tri-State Transportation CampaignThe coming privatization of Long Island Bus could be bad news for county bus riders. Although Nassau County will hand over the system to international firm Veolia Transportation within 3 months (the privatization would be effective as of January 1), there are still virtually no details about what service and fares on the new system will be like after the first year.
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Source: Queens TribuneAssemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing), State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing), representatives from Asian Americans for Equality and activists from the Riders Rebellion campaign, part of Transportation Alternatives, a pro-public transit group, gathered to collect signatures from commuters at the Main Street-Flushing subway station on Aug. 18 to help make the change.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowAs the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack approaches, the union movement remembers those who lost their lives, those who risked their lives to get others to safety and those who took part in the cleanup and rebuilding efforts that followed.
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Source: NY TimesA faculty strike that disrupted the first week of school at Long Island University could come to an end on Monday, both sides said Friday after a new round of negotiations produced the outlines of a deal.
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Source: In These TimesThis weekend, the public will mourn a site of loss, recasting the painful memories and haunting fears that still hover over the aftermath at Ground Zero. But the people who worked and breathed that tragedy in the days and months following September 11 won't be at the primary commemoration ceremony for the families of victims.
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