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Cuomo Thinks It’s Funny to Raid the MTA Budget for His Seat-of-the-Pants Transportation Projects (Voice) L Train Shut for Hours Yesterday After Tunnel Filled With Smoke (Gothamist 1, 2; DNA; News; Post; AMNY) More on Thursday’s Disappointing Hearing on Bus Service: Gothamist, AMNY, News, Post Daily News Editorial Board Calls on the MTA to Address Bus Ridership Decline Samuelsen Calls for MTA Worker Pay Raise (News) […]

Cuomo’s Latest Transportation Reveal: Cashless Tolls and Pretty Lights (NYT, Politico, AP, AMNY) The Voice Captured the Essence of Cuomo’s Cutting Edge Transformational Sexy Bold Creativity Cuomo in No Hurry to Appoint a New Port Authority Chief (Politico) PABT Survey Highlights Disconnect Between Ribbon Cutters and Commuters (Bloomberg) Process-Truther Dan O’Donnell Says Citi Bike Wastes “Critical Parking Spaces” on UWS (@pfrishauf) Now’s […]

Judge Dismisses Crackpot Lawsuit to Rip Out NYC Bike Lanes (News, Post) Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson Announces Leave of Absence for Cancer Treatment (NYT) On the Stand, Christie Lackey Wildstein Implicates Cuomo in Bridgegate Cover-Up (NYT, Politico) Incoming RPA Chair Disagrees With RPA Criticism of Cuomo’s Penn Station Plan (Politico, DNA) What’s Behind the Slowed […]

Nicole Gelinas: NJ Transit’s Broke, Just Like the Rest of New Jersey (Post) A New Penn Station Train Hall Is Nice, But the Region Really Needs Better Trans-Hudson Rail (Politico) Will Hoboken Crash Investigators Get Access to a Functional Data Recorder? (WSJ, AP) Cab Driver Strikes and Critically Injures Cyclist in East Harlem; NYPD Blames Victim (News) DNA Previews Today’s […]

Someone Had to Die Before Chris Christie Raised the NJ Gas Tax (NYT, WNYC) Feds Were Investigating NJ Transit Safety Problems Before Hoboken Crash (NYT) Engineer Says He Doesn’t Remember Moment of Impact (AMNY); Black Box Wasn’t Working (Post) Study: Spending on NYC Bike Lanes Is a Huge Public Health Bargain (Reuters) MTA Has to Run […]

Hoboken Train Crash — 1 Dead, 108 Injured (NYT, AP, NY1, News, Post, WNYC, Politico) Under Christie, NJ Transit Is “an Agency in Distress” (NYT) Would Positive Train Control Have Prevented the Crash? (WSJ, Post) NJ Transit Service Will Be Disrupted for Weeks (News) New Bill From Glick and Peralta Would Suspend Licenses of Repeat School Zone Speeders (DNA) […]