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LIRR Strike Threat Riles Up Commuters Ahead of Weekend Deadline
Negotiations are ongoing in advance of the 12:01 a.m. Saturday strike date that could leave close to 300,000 riders stranded.
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Who Will Represent Mamdani at the MTA? He Has Less Than a Month to Decide.
There are two vacancies among the four seats the mayor gets to fill on the transit authority’s board.
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MTA Aims to Teach More Drivers How to Use Wheelchair Lifts on Express Buses
The city’s fleet of coach buses have lifts, but riders with disabilities say operators are often at a loss on how to use them.
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MTA Preps for Next Q Line Construction Phase Amid Fed Fund Fight
The agency is pursuing the next development contract to dig out the trenches for the Second Avenue line’s 106th Street stop.
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LISTEN: How U.S. Cities Lost the Plot on Mass Transit
Did you know that the MTA had plans in the works to run new subway lines to Starrett City, the Kings Plaza mall and Queens College? That contrary to the movie “Who Killed Roger Rabbit,” the disappearance of the Los Angeles red car mass transit system had nothing to do with a plot to have […]
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Teachers Union Files Lawsuit to Halt Congestion Pricing
The Staten Island borough president also joined the suit from the United Federation of Teachers.
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Bus Depot Workers Without Heat as Cold Settles on the City
Drivers are running buses indoors to keep warm at the East New York Bus Depot in Brooklyn.
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This Week in Mayor Adams
Alex Brook Lynn asks Katie Honan to walk us through a few of the top news items regarding our mayor in this past week in this shorter-than-usual FAQ episode. Katie gives our listeners some context for the Mayor’s reaction to criticism over some of his controversial appointments and his interaction with the press, and we […]