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New York's transit 'bloat' woes
With transit hikes set to roll out this week, New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is facing increased media and public scrutiny on its spending habits. Today the New York Daily News released a...Los Angeles Latino groups claim increase in bus fairs racist- even though Lat...
No-- this is not a story that I had hoped to get in the recently shuttered weekly world news-- NOR is this an item I am preparing as a sample to get that writing job at THE ONION--- sadly ladies and gentlemen- is a...2nd Ave Subway Construction to Maybe Begin Thursday
For as long as I lived in NYC, folks chattered on about the mythical 2nd Avenue Subway line. Nothing ever materialized. Do I think it'll happen this time? Fuhgeddaboudit."Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a host of dignitaries will descend through a sidewalk hatch at Second Avenue and...
New York City Bus Takes Out Scaffold on 34th Street
Just before 5 PM today, a New York City bus jumped the curb on the northwest corner of 5th Avenue and 34th Street in Manhattan, knocking back a 20 foot tall steel scaffold. Fortunately, no one was injured in the... Transit Strike Leaves NYC Homeless in Cold (AP)
AP - In a city crippled by a transit strike, Samuel Thenor hasn't worried about how to get to work. Instead, he wonders where he'll sleep. Thenor, 23, says he normally rides subways all night as "a stress...New York City Transit Strike Is On
NEW YORK -- Subways and buses ground to a halt Tuesday morning in New York as transit workers walked off the job following days of acrimonious labor talks, threatening to plunge the city into chaos by forcing more...Old Wall in New York
Three weeks after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority started digging a subway tunnel under Battery Park, the project hit a wall. A really old wall. Possibly the oldest wall still standing in Manhattan. The...NYC Subway Station Evacuated Due to Fire - Yahoo! News
NEW YORK - An apparent electrical fire in a subway storage room produced heavy smoke, forcing the evacuation of a busy Manhattan station and disrupting rush hour service for tens of thousands of commuters, authorities said.Second Avenue Subway Could Become Reality
The first few times I heard of the partially built, never completed, second avenue subway I scoffed and dismissed it as myth - a great story that I too would one day pass off on new comers to the city. Over time though, I had heard so much about it that I began to believe -...NYC MTA has a secret film file
MTA investigators are keeping a secret database of people stopped and questioned for filming or photographing bridges and tunnels as part of the agency's efforts to thwart terror, the Daily News has learned. The...Coffee ban on NY Subway
According to The Times:Moving between cars - as well as resting one's feet on the seats, sipping from an open container (even a cup of coffee) and straddling a bicycle while riding the subway - will be prohibited...Oops, I Dropped My Sensitive Subway Blueprints!
What would we do without our city tabloids? The NY Post reported that many subway blueprints were found on a street corner in Fort Greene. The drawings included "schematics of the Atlantic Avenue subway and Long Island Rail Road station," with "diagrams of the location of...MTA Opens Up West Side Railyards to Bidding
Somewhere, Adam Smith is smiling: The MTA has decided to offer up West Side railyards to competitive bidding, possibly thwarting the City's efforts to put a West Side Jets Stadium there. But this doesn't mean a free-for-all with the bidding: The MTA says that any other...Hey, MTA, You're On Candid Cameraphone!
Wow, this might be the first cameraphone picture as NY tabloid cover photo in history: The Daily News published a picture of a sleeping token booth clerk today! Reader Denise Davila sent the DN the photograph she took over the weekend at the F train's Prospect Park stop at...
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