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August 17, 2011
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Source: CBS New YorkIt's only a matter of time until the duo are rolling on the subway car's floor, and at least one other person is involved in the tangle. There's the obligatory hair pulling and kicking.
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Source: ABC New YorkNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's popularity isn't what it used to be.
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Source: ABC New YorkNew York City's police and fire chiefs are in Washington to push for a better communication system for first responders.
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Source: Transportation NationThe public is having its say today about steep toll and fare hikes proposed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. At a public hearing this morning held at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd Street in Manhattan, drivers and PATH Train riders passionately panned the looming increases. But trade unionists, which stand to benefit if more money goes towards the agency’s capital projects, approved of increasing revenues through hikes.
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Source: The DailyWASHINGTON — If you’re wondering about the next act in the toxic theatrics of political brinksmanship playing on Capitol Hill for an undetermined run, keep an eye on the federal gas tax.
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Source: WNYCMore than 2,000 concrete workers have reached a tentative contract agreement.
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Source: GovTech.comThe San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will be upgrading existing video surveillance cameras for 358 buses, including adding the ability to have real-time monitoring.
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Source:he best way to find the Boathouse restaurant in the middle of Central Park is to follow the sounds of the beating drums. On a recent Monday afternoon, they drowned out even the whistles and catcalls of the protesters gathered in front of the restaurant.
August 16, 2011
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Source: ABC New YorkThe Second Avenue subway project is way over budget and far behind schedule.
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Source: amNYThree New Yorkers have turned their frustrating commute into laughs on Twitter — at the MTA’s expense.
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Source: EconomixA look at which industries and individuals have given members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction the most campaign contributions.
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Source: Streetsblog
“This is the civil rights dilemma: Our laws purport to level the playing field, but our transportation choices have effectively barred millions of people from accessing it.”
So says a report from the Leadership Conference Education Fund, a project of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The coalition wasn’t involved in the transportation reauthorization debate in 2005, when SAFETEA-LU was passed, and they’re determined to be at the table this time. -
Source: NY TimesThe company accused striking employees of cutting phone lines, while the union said that strikers have been struck by managers’ cars.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNo livery cab street hails until more hacks have rides that are more handicapped accessible. That's the message from Assemblyman Micah Kellner (D-Manhattan) and a dozen other state and city lawmakers.
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Source: Fox 5 NYGov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a law to ban smoking on the upstate and Long Island platforms of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's commuter trains to protect other passengers from secondhand smoke.
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Source: Transit WireTen winning ideas were announced last week for the NYC BigApps Ideas Challenge. Starting in June, people were encouraged to submit concepts for applications by answering the following question in 140 characters or less: “I want a NYC App that ______.” No programming was required and participants submitted ideas, not functioning apps.
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Source: NY PostChalk up another win for Gov. Cuomo -- and New Yorkers: Rank-and-file members of the state’s largest public-employee union gave their blessing last night to a contract calling for a three-year pay freeze and other concessions.
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Source: NY Daily NewsEastern Queens community leaders say Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials "didn't do their homework" before rejecting a plan that would restore service along a defunct bus route.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Port Authority's rapidly approaching vote on massive toll and fare hikes is showing New Yorkers a side of Gov. Cuomo we haven't seen before.
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Source:Tired of being “coddled” by Uncle Sam, uber-rich investor Warren Buffett wants affluent Americans such as himself to pay higher taxes – and many of New York’s wealthiest think that’s a capital idea.
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