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March 5, 2012
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Source: NY PostThe MTA is refusing to provide door-to-door “Access-A-Ride” service for ailing grandmother Iris Marcus, who fought off stage-three breast cancer seven years ago but says she can’t walk more than several steps without feeling severe pain from a degenerative back disease and diabetes-induced ulcerated feet.
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Source: NY TimesOn Tuesday, a coalition of community and labor organizations plans to introduce a citywide campaign to reform the carwash industry. The union advocates, in turn, hope to use the campaign to unionize carwash workers across the city, most of whom are immigrants.
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Source: NY TimesIF you live in New York, commute to New York, or occasionally visit what Russell Shorto called the island at the center of the world, you have experienced the indignity of our city’s transportation hell. You have endured the screeching, flood-prone subways. You have surrendered exorbitant carfare to escape our eyesore airports, then lurched along congested highways, over creaking bridges and into our truck-clotted city streets. You have dodged the camping homeless at the Port Authority bus terminal, or wandered lost in the miasmal misery of Pennsylvania Station. New York City welcomes you with open arms — like the zombies in “The Walking Dead.”
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Source: BloombergPresident Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board can’t be challenged as part of a lawsuit over requirements for businesses to inform employees of their rights, a judge ruled.
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Source: Fox New York
Cops Use App to Track Down iPhone Thief: MyFoxNY.com
The NYPD said iPhone and smart phone thefts are a serious issue, particularly in the city's transit system. In the last month as many as 9 women have had their phones swiped near the Lexington and 86th Street and 96th Street subways stops: The crook rides a bike and grabs the phones as people are exiting the station.
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Source: Metropolis / Wall Street JournalHigh-ranking state and federal officials huddled Thursday with potential bidders for the first phase of construction of Manhattan’s long-planned Moynihan Station. The meeting at the James A. Farley Post Office came several weeks after the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reached an agreement with state officials on scaling back the first phase of construction after bids exceeded projections by millions of dollars.
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Source: New York Daily NewsFor your consideration, the lead item from my "Albany Insider" column today. (this is the full version, some of which did not run in the paper): Gov. Cuomo’s budget team pushed the state teachers retirement system into scrapping a critical review of his pension reform plan, the Daily News has learned.
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Source: Mobilizing the RegionA multitude of pro-transit voices dominated last night’s hearing on the state’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project. In a scene similar to Tuesday’s hearing in Rockland County, Westchester residents and elected officials called for transit to be included in the new bridge’s design. It was standing room only at the Marriott, where more than 500 people came to view draft bridge designs and provide comments. Here are a few of them:
March 2, 2012
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Source: Fox New York
MTA Chairman Addresses Citizens Advisory Committee: MyFoxNY.com
The NYC subway rep asked about negotiations with the Transport Workers Union.
Lhota repeatedly noted the MTA had money problems. For example he said all of the money from the scheduled fare increases in 2015 will go for pension and health care increases for transit workers.
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Source: The Brooklyn PaperThe reopening of a long-shuttered entrance at the Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street station promises Park Slopers greater subway access — but it also marks the beginning of the end of an extension of the G train that provides a crucial transit link between North and Brownstone Brooklyns.
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Source: NY Daily NewsOne company, San Francisco-based Square, said it will install iPads that allow riders to swipe credit or debit cards during the ride and request electronic receipts.
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Source: Journal-NewsWestchester’s Bee-Line bus drivers and mechanics agreed Thursday not to strike for at least two weeks as talks continue, the union representing the employees said.
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Source: Amsterdam NewsWhen you listen to Earl Phillips, the new secretary-treasurer for Transit Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, you notice that he states things matter-of-factly. It comes with the territory. Phillips is the old-school story of the American Dream realized.
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Source: amNYMTA head Joseph Lhota said Thursday that the agency is considering a plan to have both Metro-North and LIRR trains go to the busy transit hub.
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Source: NY PostThe two subway stations that had their trash cans removed as part of a pilot program to reduce waste are remarkably clean, despite public opposition to lugging their leftovers around, a top transit official said.
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Source: Mobilizing the RegionNew York State’s proposed bridge—which lacks the transit component that Lower Hudson Valley residents had previously agreed upon—has attracted concern in New York and across the tri-state region. While the state assures citizens that bus lanes or commuter rail could be added to the bridge later, Tri-State’s analysis has cast this assertion into doubt.
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Source: WNYCThis week’s Please Explain takes a look at something familiar (yet still mysterious) to every New Yorker: the subway. Clifton Hood, professor of history at Hobart and William Smith College and author of 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York, talks about how the subway was built and how it transformed the metropolitan area.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe robberies — mainly of electronic items such as cell phones and iPods — had occurred primarily around the Morgan Avenue L subway station and the Flushing Avenue J, M and Z stop, Kemper said.
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Source: NY TimesMr. Saint Hilaire’s death received some attention because he was one of two men hit on Wednesday by trains at the same station, the 72d Street station on Broadway. Several transit officials said they could not recall another instance where two people were hit in the same station on the same day. The second man hit, 33, was trying to clamber up from the track bed and was struck before noon, about four hours after the first accident, by a northbound No. 2 train. He was in stable condition at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe new multi-billion dollar project for the 3-mile span over the Hudson River is on a breakneck schedule that has opponents crying foul.
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