NY Sen. urges MTA action on wireless Internet

Sen. Charles Schumer contends the commuter railroads serving New York City have been slow to implement wireless Internet service.

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Some 75,000 people took a free ride as service began on the new Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension, and no major glitches were reported, an MTA spokesperson said Monday.

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My first question when reading this article is why do half a million kids get free rides on the MTA to school in the first place? That is half a billion dollars in revenue. No wonder it is broke.

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Throughout the fall as he campaigned for re-election, Mayor Michael R.

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"MTA Chairman Jay Walder and fellow authority board members were called "a bunch of doody-heads" by a high ranking union official at Walder's first board meeting Wednesday.

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On Friday night, I was walking back to the subway with my friend Stace, about 1:30 in the morning after a friend's birthday party at the Grace Hotel. We cut through the giant main room of Grand Central, and it was really empty so I did a cartwheel.

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A giant tiled wall of jewel-toned loops and curves — one of the last commissions by the Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt — was unveiled in the 59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last week.

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Mayor Bloomberg blasted the MTA for failing to hike workers health care contributions - a hard-won right wrested from the union in the wake of the 2005 transit strike.

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Selling the name of a subway station has been a goal of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for nearly five years. But interest has been low, even for a piece of real estate so recognizable to the public.

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At a ribbon cutting ceremony on Geary and Arguello Boulevards in the Richmond District yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom, MTA Chief Nat Ford and representatives from Clear Channel presented the next iteration of the city's bus shelters, the first of 1100 new shelters that will be ins …

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State leaders have agreed on a breakthrough deal for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which would increase fares and tolls by 10 percent, officials in Albany said. Gov. David A. Paterson, Assemby Speaker Sheldon Silver, and Senator Malcolm A.

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In addition to decreased rail service, several bus routes will disappear on weekends and evenings while others disappear entirely.

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okay...i think i just lost my lunch. i am beyond angry about this. i cannot understand why america cannot make it's language just english.

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nterestingly, the number of residents who drive to work in the districts represented by opponents to the Ravitch Plan are tally almost 2-to-1 public transit users.

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The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Wednesday morning to enact a series of fare hikes and service cutbacks needed to keep the transit system from going broke

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Calling it the lesser of two evils, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver defended a legislative compromise proposal whereby cars would be charged a $2 toll when crossing the East and Harlem Rivers on currently toll-free bridges into Manhattan.

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Sander told the packed house that if the state legislature doesn't act on what's being called the Ravitch plan--recommendations by a commission headed by former MTA chair Richard Ravitch--that draconian measures would ensue.

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Excerpt: A veteran MTA bus driver was bitten on the forearm by an out-of-control female passenger Wednesday as he drove his packed M104 bus during rush hour in Manhattan.

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been slow to increase weekday bus service even as ridership has surged, resulting in jam-packed buses that often have to pass waiting riders because they cannot hold more passengers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the St …

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The subways are flat broke, busted. Straphangers are facing a fare hike in 2009, the second in two years. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority does not have the money to deliver promised improvements and might actually be forced to cut service.

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Homeland Insecurity

A commentator behind me is reporting on the crane collapse. The stammering reporter is talking about the complexities of a crane operation manual and mumbling about the tight supply of labor in the global construction market.

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Any thing involving better and faster and more is a good deal when it comes to Transit. It makes sense to bring Metro North into Penn Station, just as it does to bring the LIRR into Grand Central.

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In the midst of all these grand gestures, these edifices and artworks, Ashe is still somehow getting lost, evaporating from memory. It is a great lesson to all the organizers that you can do too much, sometimes, without getting the little things right

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MTA (supposedly the MTA that is) has released a Facebook Application called "Subway Status"

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So, in fact 25% of all today's Google's Hot Trend Searches were by New Yorkers or commuters into New York City.

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Powerful thunderstorms swept through the New York metropolitan area this morning, tearing up trees and damaging cars and creating havoc during the morning commute.

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