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The Pennsauken Transit Center (in light blue) would connect the Atlantic City Rail Line, River Line light rail, and local buses — all of which are facing cutbacks in service. On Friday, Vice President Biden and USDOT Secretary LaHood announced funding for 191 new Recovery Act transit projects in 42 states. Unfortunately, this final round [...] A typical view of what the 34th Street makeover would look like. NYCDOT has another daring project planned for Midtown: the transformation of 34th Street through the addition of a physically separated busway and pedestrian improvements. The changes should speed up buses in a congested crosstown corridor and provide some breathing room for pedestrians who [...] Over 40,000 New Yorkers signed petitions against service cuts, which were delivered to MTA Headquarters this month by NYC Council Speaker Quinn, Council Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca, and advocates. New Yorkers are mad as hell about plans to cut transit service, Access-a-Ride, and free NYC student MetroCards — public hearings across the MTA region [...] Public hearings on the MTA’s proposed service cuts begin tonight in Nassau and Westchester Counties, and will continue over the next week in the five boroughs and Rockland and Suffolk Counties. Background The MTA is proposing: Major service cuts to MTA subway, bus, and commuter rail throughout the region. These include cancellation of the M and W subway [...] The cost of providing free NYC student MetroCards is shared by the MTA, city, and state. But the MTA's share of the cost has grown over the years, and the state dropped its share to nearly nothing in 2009. At tomorrow’s MTA board meeting, New York City students will ask to meet with MTA Chairman [...] De Blasio. NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is mobilizing parents and straphangers in defense of the city’s endangered free student MetroCards. His office is seeking volunteers to hand out flyers at over 20 subway stations between 7am and 9:30am tomorrow, Thursday, February 18. The flyers will ask recipients to call Gov. Paterson and legislative [...] Alarm bells are ringing for transit in the New York metropolitan area, TSTC and other members of the Empire State Transportation Alliance told elected leaders in Albany this Monday. At the state capitol, ESTA members testified at budget hearings and met with legislators and staff from the governor’s and NYC mayor’s offices. They said that, [...] Gillibrand (pictured on the subway in Washington, D.C.). Over the last week, federal lawmakers from New York floated two proposals having to do with transit stimulus funds. One would put transit riders in danger of further cuts, while the other might be the best hope for the MTA’s near-term stability. Five U.S. Representatives from the Hudson [...] Schmitt. The new Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer, Republican Peter Schmitt, has proposed and passed raises that average 42% for himself, the Democratic Minority Leader Diane Yatauro, and the Republican Deputy Presiding Officer John Ciotti. Schmitt will now make $99,500, Yatauro $90,500, and Ciotti $84,500. (Yatauro has said she will refuse the raise, or donate [...] Gov. Paterson has proposed $7 billion in NYSDOT capital funds for the next 2 years, far less than the agency says it needs. Few things are as symbolic of New York's deteriorating infrastructure as upstate's Champlain Bridge, which was demolished last year after it was declared unsafe and beyond repair. Governor Paterson’s budget, released last [...] |
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