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August 16, 2011
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Source: DNAinfo.comUPPER MANHATTAN — The uptown Dyckman Street 1 train station platform reopened Monday after being closed for reconstruction since August 2010 as part of a $24 million overhaul.
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Source: Associated PressOfficials said Russell DeCeck may have received an electric shock from a train car he was working on. He fell onto the third rail at about 6 p.m. Sunday.
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Source: Transportation NationNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he will sign a statewide complete streets law. Twenty-four states already have laws that require planners to consider non-car uses of public roadways. New York's roadways should safely accommodate all pedestrians, motorists and cyclists, and this legislation will help communities across the state achieve this objective, Governor Cuomo said.
August 15, 2011
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Source:Museum officials are using the obsession for trains and buses among children with autism to try to teach them how to connect with other people — and the world.
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Source: Politics on the HudsonA pair of Hudson Valley state lawmakers are calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to be audited immediately as the organization begins its search for a new chief executive officer.
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Source: StreetsblogLooking at the MTA service region — NYC plus its suburbs — more people want to see additional funding going to transit.
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Source: NY TimesGov. Andrew M. Cuomo proudly calls himself “a car guy, and a motorcycle guy, and a boat guy.” One thing he is not, however, is a subway guy.
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Source: In These TimesLate last week, hundreds of cement workers walked off the job at the World Trade Center Site and several other sites in protest of management association The Cement League’s demand that New York City’s cement workers take a 20 percent wage reduction on residential and hotel projects. The contract between 2,700 cement workers represented by Locals 6a, 18a and 20 of the Cement and Concrete Workers of New York and The Cement League had been expired for more than a month.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
A New York school bus driver, fired for picking up three stranded detectives during a hailstorm last week, has gotten his job back.
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Source: Tri-State Transportation CampaignLong Island Bus riders, students, local elected officials and various other groups are hosting a “People’s Hearing” on the privatization of Long Island Bus, since the county doesn’t appear to be holding hearings of its own and much of the plan remains unclear.
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Source: The Journal NewsSeveral major public authorities in New York are in the midst of trying to fill their top executive posts after a series of resignations.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceNEW YORK -- Service on the F subway line has resumed in Coney Island after workers repaired tracks damaged by a signal room fire. There was full service on the F as of this evening, but the Q was...
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Source: NY PostAn obese Bronx man who leaped in front of an oncoming No. 2 subway in an apparent suicide bid yesterday was knocked back onto the platform where he slammed into a woman, authorities said.
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Source: NY PostA Bronx man is charged with trying to commandeer a subway train -- using a screwdriver. According to a grand-jury indictment announced yesterday, 42-year-old Richard Arrocho entered the motorman's cab and lunged at him with the weapon. Prosecutors say that during the July 22 attack, the two men struggled...
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Source: NY1A water main broke in Hamilton Heights Friday afternoon, disrupting service on the A, B, C and D subway lines and causing Con Ed to turn off gas to thousands of customers for what could be days.
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Source: NY Daily NewsLooks like New York is a labor town after all. Suddenly, local unions are striking, or threatening to, in battles with management.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSubway and bus riders were robbed in 2009 when Gov. David Paterson and the state Legislature took $160 million of transit funds to plug a state budget gap, triggering the deepest service cuts in decades.
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Source: NewsdayGov. Andrew M. Cuomo pointedly declined to give Ward, the executive director of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority, a vote of confidence amid the wrangling over proposed toll hikes for bridges and tunnels to New Jersey.
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Source: Chicago TribuneMetra is poised to become only the second major commuter rail system in the country whose trains are equipped with life-saving defibrillators.
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Source: Albany Times UnionEver since 45,000 workers began their strike against Verizon Communications on Sunday, their unions have repeatedly stressed one point: Verizon's push for concessions would "destroy middle-class jobs" and "push workers out of the middle class."
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