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Streetsblog Q&A With TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen
Streetsblog Q&A With TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen
Thursday, April 29, 2010 13:30
Last December, John Samuelsen was elected president of TWU Local 100, the union that represents 38,000 subway and bus workers in the new York City region. he assumed the leadership from former president Roger Toussaint at a troubled time for the transit system. With transit tax revenues in free fall and state lawmakers raiding MTA [...]
NY MTA aprroves service cuts | NYC Subway News
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 15:00
Associated Press – March 24, 2010 12:25 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) – new York City’s transit agency board has voted to approve a series of cuts that will eliminate one subway line and dozens of bus routes. The service reductions will save $93 million a year. It’s part of an effort to dig out [...]
MTA Hearing: Desperation In Paradise
Friday, April 9, 2010 4:30
Comment Subscribe Subscribe In what many see as a futile attempt to fight proposed service cuts and new rate hikes to public transportation, Bronxites turned up to give a “Bronx cheer,” to board members of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYC MTA.) Only a few hundred Bronxites turned out for the only public [...]
MTA Board Approves Widespread Service Cuts
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 5:30
This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. the MTA board voted 11-2 to approve far-reaching service cuts that will eliminate the W and V trains and cut more than 30 bus lines in an attempt to plug a revenue shortfall of $750 million. Despite some alterations to the planned cuts drafted after a series [...]
NYC transit board cuts subway line, bus routes
Thursday, April 1, 2010 10:00
NEW YORK — new York City’s transit board has voted to approve cuts that will eliminate one subway line and dozens of bus routes. The service reductions to the nation’s largest mass transit system will save $93 million a year. Wednesday’s vote was part of an effort to dig out of a budget shortfall of [...]
Pandemonium at MTA Hearing in Brooklyn, 4 Arrests
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 20:00
Four people were arrested at a rowdy MTA hearing at the Brooklyn Museum last night, where transit officials found themselves on the receiving end of public fury over proposed service cutbacks. NY1 and Fox have video from the scene, where one irate young woman, who was not scheduled to speak, took the podium. when she [...]
