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August 8, 2011
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Source: NY PostA ride on a PATH train would cost more than one on a city subway for the first time in 50 years under proposed Port Authority fare increases.
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Source: NY PostThe astronomical Hudson River toll and PATH fare hikes trotted out by the Port Authority late Friday blindsided the very men who control the agency -- Gov. Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, sources told The Post.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceIt's a lifeline for senior citizens and the disabled, many of whom wouldn't be able to leave home without it.
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Source: NY TimesThe striking workers are mostly in Verizon’s declining wireline businesses, but also in its popular FiOS service. The company remains highly profitable.
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Source: Washington ExaminerThe head of New York City’s subway system is leaving the helm, raising questions of who will take over the largest transit system in the country.
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Source: StreetsblogWho’s up for the challenge of managing the nation’s biggest transit system at a time when state government has left it with a pile of debt and two already-scheduled fare hikes? The person who takes over the MTA from Jay Walder after his resignation takes effect October 21 will have the marquee transit job in the United States, but also perhaps the most difficult.
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Source: Second Ave. SagasWith the MTA’s release of its 2012-2015 budget, the analysts came out in full force. While most were skeptical of the various assumptions tenuously supporting the authority’s plans, the city’s Independent Budget Office takes a different approach. The MTA revenues, they say in a report released on Friday, are resting on some highly volatile taxes and fees, and small shifts in the economy and political winds could leave the authority flailing for dollars.
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Source: NY PostThe feds have quietly demanded that the MTA hand over all air-quality data from Second Avenue Subway construction sites -- for fear that New Yorkers are sucking finely ground particles into their lungs. One Environmental Protection Agency inspection last week was timed to the earth-shattering underground blasts that often send...
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Source: WPIXCommuters are honking mad over proposed toll hikes. Now you can add Republican New York State Senator Charles Fuschillo Junior's voice to the outraged anti-toll hike chorus.
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Source:Witness high-priced consultants and attorneys pumping up their companies and punching holes in the competition's reputations, as First Transit and Veolia Transportation continue their feud over a $600 million contract to operate a bus system.
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Source: MetroThe diminutive pervert targeting young women on the Upper East Side has struck again, according to police, attacking his 12th female victim over the weekend and sending her to the hospital.
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Source: MetroSee that piece of slimy trash the subway rat is chewing? You could be next.
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Source: NY PostThree taxi medallions sold last week for record high prices -- including two for a whopping $705,000 -- despite speculation that the good-as-gold aluminum plates would plummet in value because of Mayor Bloomberg's five-borough taxi plan.
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Source: ABC New YorkUnion officials say thousands of striking workers will join picket lines and rallies at more than 100 Verizon work locations across New York and New Jersey.
August 5, 2011
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Source: Mocker Blog / WPIX 11
Let's take a trip along the B25.
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Source: NY PostA 74-year-old recent migrant from Germany jumped to her death yesterday in front of a subway train at an elevated station in The Bronx -- and her body dangled for a while 30 feet above horrified rush-hour onlookers.
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Source: YourNabe.comFlushing community members are combining forces with advocacy groups and elected officials in an effort to make their voices heard on issues facing the neighborhood’s transportation system.
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Source: NY Daily NewsIt was Bleak Thursday for big wheels and regular investors as the fear that sent stocks tumbling spread from The Street to the streets.
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Source: NY Daily NewsAn elderly couple tumbled out of a city bus on a Manhattan street yesterday - causing a brief scare for passersby, officials and witnesses said.
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