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August 25, 2011
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Source: Straphangers CampaignSThis “State of the Subways” Report Card tells riders how their lines do on these key aspects of service. We look at six measures of subway performance for the city’s 20 major subway lines, using recent data compiled by MTA New York City Transit. Much of the information has not been released publicly before on a line-by-line basis. Most of the measures are for all or the last half of 2010.
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Source: WNYCThere are many factors that have led to the abysmal fiscal situation of the MTA. Tax receipts vanishing in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis didn’t help. Neither does Albany legislators’ stealing funds from the agency to pay for other things. The agency’s debt obligations alone take 20 cents from every dollar it pulls in.
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Source: NY TimesUnder new regulations from the National Labor Relations Board, companies must post notices that inform employees about their rights to unionize under federal law.
August 24, 2011
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Source: Second Avenue SagasAt approximately 1:51 p.m., a earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck near Richmond, Virginia, and the shocks were felt up and down the east coast. Currently, however, the MTA says everything is fine with their network. A Transit spokesman told me there is “no impact on service” from the quake, and the MTA just posted a similar statement to Twitter.
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Source:SL Green Realty Corp. wants to boot the airport shuttle buses from outside 125 Park Ave.
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Source: DNAInfo.comThe suspect choked an elderly male from behind and snatched his wallet as he entered the N train subway entrance at Broadway and West 28th Street at 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 13, the NYPD said. The man sustained a stroke as a result, police said.
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Source: Fox 5 NYAmtrak trains have resumed normal speeds along the busy Northeast Corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
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Source: TransitWireA working group set up to review fare collection options for Philadelphia’s Regional Rail voted almost unanimously to support the current two-way fare system, according to PlanPhilly.
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Source: InTheseTimesTwo unions move closer to first NAFTA-wide union at USW convention.
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Source: NY TimesThe largest single-agency layoff since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office comes as schools are about to reopen.
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Source: The Daily StamfordFairfield County residents protested proposed New Haven Line rail fare increases and CTTransit bus service cuts at two public hearings in Stamford on Tuesday evening.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperFour thieves jumped a woman on the subway on Aug. 19. The victim told cops that the group first approached her as she waited for a Brooklyn-bound L train at the Third Avenue station in Manhattan at 4 am, and accused her of bumping into them on the platform. The woman walked away, and boarded the next train, but the gang followed her into the subway car — and all the way to the Bedford Avenue station, where they grabbed her purse, which contained an iPhone, cash and credit cards.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe two-week strike by 45,000 Verizon workers is over - for now - but no one's quite sure if it accomplished anything. Saturday's sudden decision by union leaders to suspend their walkout without a new contract surprised many members and supporters.
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Source: NPRWhy was New York state's Tappan Zee Bridge built at one of the widest spots on the Hudson River when it would have been much cheaper and easier to build it a few miles south? Newspaper clippings from the 1940s and '50s revealed something suspicious.
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Source:Upper East Siders living along the Second Avenue subway's path are still getting woken up at night because of the construction. And they might continue to have their sleep interrupted until 2018.
August 23, 2011
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Source: NY PostThe cash-strapped agency is shelling out more than $106,000 on uniforms for station repairmen, although they have done just fine for years wearing their own clothes, The Post has learned.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe $4 billion Second Avenue subway project might not be completed until 2018 -- about 16 months later than the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had planned, according to a new government report.
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Source: NY Daily NewsEdward (Eddie) Ivey, 39, was outside a Wyandanch bash hosted by his motorcycle club when a man tried to get in without paying the $5 cover charge about 1 a.m. Sunday, his family said.
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