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• Bouncing Baby Born on Brooklyn Bus

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:28 pm

  Tags: Mta

  "The bus driver and several MTA employees all told me that she would get free rides for life," but an MTA official said that wasn't the case. Which is fine with Grandma: "[I f they don't, that's OK, too - this was a miracle, and that's all that matters."

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• Touring the Brighton Line

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:35 pm

  Tags: Mta

  This past Sunday, Gothamist went on a tour of the Brighton Line and Franklin Avenue Shuttle subway lines in Brooklyn. The tour, sponsored by the New York City Transit Museum, was lead by subway historian Joe Cunningham who gave an incredibly detailed history of the line, peppered with historical antidotes, on the various tour stops on the line

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• 756*

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Albany, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Con Ed, Crime, Death, Explosions, Housing, Mike Bloomberg, Mta, Nyu

  the next step in the annual MTA fare-hike dance. City Comptroller William Thompson says there's no need to futz with fares until 2010, but the state needs to cough up more funds. Albany, your turn. [NYP] • And remember that steam-pipe explosion in Midtown? Con Ed still has no clue why it happened. Comforting. [IHT]

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• Further Adventures in Decrepit Infrastructure: MTA-in-the-Rain Edition

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Intel, Mta, Rain, Subway, Weather

  6 trains aren't running. The MTA Website also reports major problems on the 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, L, N, R, J, Q trains and on the 42nd Street Shuttle. (We think that leaves the 7 and the G as the only trains operating properly.) Don't you just love our aging infrastructure? Service Alert [MTA]

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• MTA Website Down When Needed

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:22 am

  Tags: General News, Long Island Railroad, Metro North, Mta New York, Mta Ny, Mta Website, New York City, New York City Transit, Ny Subway, Subway Ny, Subway Stations, Wcbs Radio, York City Transit

  problems in New York. The MTA says the subway stations are flooded and this has caused big time congestion on all the commuters today. (more…) copyright @2007 bu.bulicio.us long island railroad, metro north, mta new york, mta ny, mta website, new york city, new york city transit, ny subway, subway ny, subway stations, wcbs radio,

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• Stewart Airport rail link just a waste

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Mta Economics

  edition of The Sun, the MTA is studying the possibility of a rail link between Penn Station and the airport. The link, which would consist of a three-mile spur off of Metro-North’s Port Jervis line, would probably bring about a renewed interested in this transportation hub nestled just outside the world of New York City. Annie Karni of

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• Minnesota tragedy underscores infrastructure investments

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:36 am

  Tags: Mta Economics

  tracks in Queens are on the MTA’s Capital Construction to-do list. But this is a short list of elevated parts of the subway dependent on aging infrastructure. The Broadway Bridge at the northern tip of Manhattan is from 1960. The elevated tracks at Yankee Stadium date from 1917. The list literally runs for miles and miles. For us in New

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• Report: Track workers’ culture encourages safety violations

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:28 am

  Tags: Mta Construction

  will be disciplined, and the MTA has already instituted a whole slew of new safety measures. The MTA has issued new radios to work crews. They plan to enforce flagging of adjacent active tracks during work times. They are working to ensure that all emergency radio and phone boxes are in working order, and they are attempting to limit the noise in

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• amNY can’t have it both ways on subway ads

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:58 pm

  Tags: Mta Economics

  need a subway line, and the MTA needs money. If advertising helps, I’m much more in favor of that than I am of cutting EMTs in the subways. ==== On a side note, the first story about advertising in the subways features a few interesting comments from Roco Krsulic, head of the MTA’s real estate and advertising department. Krsulic

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• Mayor’s Aide: ‘Go see a shrink’ if you like taking the subway

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:57 pm

  Tags: Mta Absurdity

  The Mayor uses this car to drive to the subway. Lazy. (Photo: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times) Oh, The New York Times, what have you started? This morning, splashed across the front page of The Times - but thankfully, below the fold - appeared this scandalous story. Apparently, Mayor Bloomberg, long known as the billionaire Mayor who rides

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• A Brooklyn Cyclone?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:11 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Con Ed, Mta, Rain, Subway, Weather

  little detail, the MTA's press office was hugely understaffed because all but one of its employees were stuck trying to get to work. There were major delays at all three airports. Four thousand Con Ed customers lost power. A woman was killed in what the Times is calling a "storm-related car accident" on Staten Island. And, perhaps most

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• And Spitzer Wonders, Still He Wonders, Who'll Drain the Rain

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:17 pm

  Tags: Intel, Eliot Spitzer, Mta, Rain, Subway, Weather

  only calamity — MTA executive director Lee Sander later cited a downed tree near Stillwell Avenue and smoke in tunnels — but it was the most severe. At the governor's insistence, the MTA will take 30 days, or thereabouts, to research how it might bolster the drains. When it's announced, expect a round of wrangling among MTA

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• The great student MetroCard swindle

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:22 am

  Tags: Mta Economics, Mta Absurdity, Fare Hikes

  proclaiming the impending MTA fare hike could be avoided if Albany and the city fulfill their fiscal obligations to the MTA. While a pesky flood captured the city, Thompson’s report deserves another look. An analysis of the six ways in in which, combined, the MTA could draw in enough revenue to fend off a fare hike for now,

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• Today's Commute: Most Subway Lines Working

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:34 am

  Tags: Mta

  least there is service. The MTA's latest service alert for subways and buses says:Posted on:8/9/2007 7:23:08 AM Due to yesterday's flooding, this is the current status of subway operations: E and F trains are running local in both directions. E, F and R trains are running with extensive delays. Customers are advised to allow extra time

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• Brooklyn Cyclone, Confirmed

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:49 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Andrew Cuomo, Arabic, Bay Ridge, Education, Magazines, Mitt Romney, Mta, Rain, Rudy Giuliani, Weather

  become a major issue; the MTA has 30 days to come up with a fix. [NYT] • Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney called Giuliani-era New York City a "sanctuary" for illegal immigrants. Apparently, this kind of thing plays well in Iowa, where Mitt now leads. [ABC] • A.G. Andrew Cuomo's new crusade is against those third-party outfits

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