Op-Ed: Homeless Will Be ‘Sanitized’ From Subways — But To Where?
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Scapegoated again for the system's problems, they will be cast out overnight as the trains shut down. But there are hotel rooms — if the mayor would move.
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Transit Watchdogs: Raiding MTA Taxes Will Threaten A Federal Bailout
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Governor: Keep your hands off tax money that's supposed to go to the cash-strapped MTA!
SHUTDOWN: In Historic Move, Cuomo Eliminates Early Morning Subway Service for Cleaning
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Gov. Cuomo has just announced that subway service will be shut down from 1 to 5 a.m. every day so that the system can be completely disinfected every 24 hours.
Pols Keep Making Homelessness a Transit Issue, But it is a Housing Issue
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Kicking homeless people off of subway trains one stop before the end of the line is not a housing policy, advocates say.
Cars and COVID-19: A New Way to Look at Virus Spread
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Remember that MIT study that suggested that transit worsened the coronavirus crisis in New York City? Well, the same (equally unlikely) thing can be said about cars, too!
Wednesday’s Headlines: Homeless Media Circus Edition
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The local tabs got another day out of the ongoing battle between the MTA and Mayor de Blasio over homelessness in the subways. Plus all the other news.