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August 11, 2011
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Source: NY TimesFive months after Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin pushed through a law stripping public unions of their bargaining rights, the Republican Party has paid a price. Two of the state senators who backed the law were thrown out of office by voters on Tuesday and replaced with Democrats. Mr. Walker’s opponents did not succeed in turning over the Senate, but it was still an impressive response to the governor’s arrogant overreach.
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Source: StreetsblogThe Independent Budget Office criticized the MTA for relying too heavily on volatile dedicated taxes and fees, but almost all the volatility comes from a single source: property transfer taxes.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesAfter a day, a night and a morning of widespread delays and cancellations caused by a New Jersey Transit train that partly derailed, service into and out of Penn Station was fully restored.
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Source:An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that the Metro North Commuter Railroad Co. discriminated against an employee by classifying his on-the-job injury as not being work-related and denying him a promotion.
August 10, 2011
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Source: NY ObserverOn a recent morning in the fifth-floor conference room of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s brick and limestone Madison Avenue headquarters, a public meeting of the board was called to order. The various members representing the audit, governance, bridges and tunnels, finance, and other committees listened patiently as Mark Shotkin, a member of the transit-riding public, made a statement. “Jim and Andrew, your ties are very nice,” he began, spreading a little sugar around the room. “Nancy, your-your-your jacket is very nice,” he added, grinning at Nancy Shevell, the bus committee chairman. Then he got right to the point: “Good morning, everybody, um, garbage and graffiti on platforms and trains—totally disgusting.”
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Source: City Room / NY TimesAn escalation in a dispute between a union and the operator of the restaurant in Central Park catches some diners by surprise.
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Source: ABC New YorkThousands of strikers remain on picket lines from Massachusetts to Virginia.
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Source: NY1NY1 viewers submitted many video and pictures of flooding in the subway stations on Tuesday and MTA officials said signal and switch problems also contributed to the trains' delays and re-routing.
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Source: NY1The Select Bus Service was supposed to speed riders' commutes, but some passengers ended up on an unexpected express route to a hefty fine for supposedly cheating the system. NY1's Transit reporter Tina Redwine filed the following report.
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Source: Crain's New YorkPreliminary analysis of the impact of the proposed cross-harbor rail freight tunnel could alter the politics of the project. The early data confirm predictions that linking Brooklyn to New Jersey by rail would remove large numbers of trucks from the road, but the benefits would be greater than expected for upstate and New England and perhaps somewhat less than expected for the city.
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Source: NY1NY1 VIDEO: The late Hugh Carey served two terms as Governor of New York and four members of his administration remembered his life and legacy after his passing. Joining Inside City Hall’s Errol Louis was a panel that included former Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch, who was MTA chairman under Carey; Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, who served as a top legal advisor to the governor; Lillian Roberts, executive director of District Council 37, who was appointed state labor commissioner by Carey, and political consultant Bill Cunningham, who was a top aide in the Carey administration.
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Source: Transportation NationTo be in a vehicle on a Friday afternoon in New York City is a particular kind of hell. No matter where you go, there are thousands of motorists in front of you, edging their way off the island…by the Holland Tunnel, the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel. We New Yorkers pride ourselves on being able to game the system – on finding the one traffic-free road out of town, or choosing the bridge or tunnel that will get us to our weekend destination most quickly, or taking the train, or staying put, or figuring out, down to the minute, when is the best possible time to leave to beat it all. But still, somehow almost every New Yorker has found him- or herself slowly but inevitably inching towards one of the Port Authority crossings on a Friday afternoon, stuck in a nasty and impenetrable row of barely-moving vehicles.
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Source: NY PostTrains are running again in and out of New York City’s Penn Station — but with some long delays. Wednesday’s slow commute comes a day after two cars of a New Jersey-bound train derailed in a Hudson River tunnel near Penn Station. No one was injured.
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Cabbies are hell on wheels but bus drivers are safe, NYC residents say in poll - New York Daily NewsSource: NY Daily NewsBus drivers are gentlemen when it comes to sharing the road with others - but cabbies are hell on wheels, city residents say.
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Source:A suspect has been charged in connection with a series of gropings and sexual assaults in Manhattan.
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Source: SF ChronicleBART's plans to replace its rail cars have drawn much attention from riders and politicians, but Monday's systemwide shutdown - due to the failure of two data devices to work together - highlights that the transit...
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Source: NY1NY1 VIDEO: The president of the Transport Workers Union Local 100 told Inside City Hall’s Errol Louis that outgoing MTA Chairman Jay Walder has done a subpar job and weighed in on upcoming contracts talks with the MTA.
August 8, 2011
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Source: ABC New York17 people were hurt in a bus crash in the Olinville section of the Bronx on Sunday.
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Source: Fox 5 NYA man was killed Sunday after he was struck by a train at a downtown Manhattan subway station, authorities said.
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Source: NY1New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney said Saturday that construction at the Second Avenue subway is safe after six people were indicted for allegedly faking results of concrete tests.
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