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 NY1 | Plan To Restore Old Queens Rail Line Divides Supporters NY1 An abandoned rail line in Queens has sparked debate as some residents are now pushing for its restoration as a transit link while others would like to see it become a park. NY1's Roger Clark filed the following report. It's hard to believe trains once ... |
 NY1 | Subway Operators Urged To Slow Down As Union Talks Remain Stalled NY1 NY1's Transit reporter Tina Redwine filed the following report. On Monday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's largest union advised subway operators to use extra caution when driving into stations, given the deaths of three people hit by ... |
 NY1 | NY1 ItCH: Cuomo Makes Some Moves As City Typewriters Click On NY1 The quota order is likely to rekindle the still-simmering tensions from the 2005 holiday-season transit strike ? staged in large part because the union accused the MTA of a disciplinary crackdown.? Sally Goldenberg writes: ?Apparently, Mayor Bloomberg ... |
 NY1 | State Senator Wants To Ban Eating In The Subway System NY1 Some riders who spoke with NY1 on Sunday said there is got to be a better way to fix the problem. "I think it's a horrible idea, it's very unnecessary. I think that people use the trains to commute every day. As New Yorkers, we multi-task all the time. |
 NY1 | NY1 ItCH: A Fight Over Lines As Hizzoner Skips Fiction NY1 After spending $160 million on a failed radio system for cops to communicate in the subways, the city is hoping to overcome the failed network by buying transit cops two-way radios, officials said yesterday. The improvised solution comes six years ... |
 NY1 | More Transit Police Officers Combat Increase In Subway Crime NY1 NY1's Transit reporter Tina Redwine filed the following report. Crime in the subways jumped 16 percent last year, compared with 2010, and New York City Police Department Transit Chief Joseph Fox said one factor stands out. |
 NY1 | NY1 ItCH: An ItCHy Monday With No Transit Contract NY1 ? Christine Haughney reports: ?One week after the expiration of a labor contract between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Transport Workers Union Local 100, there is no shortage of evidence that the two sides are far apart on a new deal. |
 NY1 | NY1 ItCH: Showtime At The Apollo As Obama Comes To Town NY1 Pete Donohue writes: ?Transit union president John Samuelsen abruptly canceled a contract talk with the MTA on Thursday, accusing the authority of leaking its proposals to the Daily News before bringing them to the bargaining table. |
 NY1 | UES Residents Concerned About Smoke From MTA's Second Avenue Construction NY1 Despite improvements made by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, some Upper East Side residents told NY1 on Monday they were still worried the smoke from the Second Avenue subway construction might make them sick. The transit agency's $4.5 ... |
 NY1 | No Disruptions As Transit Workers Union Contract Expires NY1 NY1's Transit reporter Tina Redwine filed the following report. The MTA makes another offer to a transit union that's without a contract - after their deal expired. Straphangers were relieved that subways and buses would be running on Monday unlike in ... |
