TN Moving Stories: Transportation Fatalities Down, Poverty On the Rise, and...
The National Transportation Safety Board says that transportation fatalities dropped 9% from 2008 to 2009. But on the rise: marine deaths and pipeline fatalities. (Washington Post)Poverty is on the...
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Slowest Bus in NYC Goes Slower than a Child Can Walk
(New York, NY -- Jim O'Grady) The M42 bus is the winner of the 9th Annual Pokey Award, given to the slowest bus in New York City. The Schleppie Award for the city’s least reliable bus goes to the...
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ANALYSIS: What Cuomo's Tax Bill Says About Transit
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo With Reporters (Photo: NY Governor's Office)When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took the stage at Medgar Evars college in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon, he looked like the...
View ArticleWhat Lies Underneath: Germs Straphangers Carry
New Yorkers are known for schlepping bags: brief cases, luggage, backpacks, lady totes or man-purses. Plenty of them end up on a subway floor during a crowded commute.What's lurking on the bottom of...
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Yellow Cabs Receive Poetic Infusion
Starting Thursday, yellow taxi passengers will find something new in the back of their cabs. It's not a stranger's cell phone. It's a poem.Poems like “Graduation,” by Dorothea Tanning and “Noche de...
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MTA Fastrack To Expand To Beyond Manhattan
NY MTA workers repairing subway track during a Fastrack service shutdown. (MTA Photos/flickr)The NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Fast Track program, which shuts down large portions of subway...
View ArticleWhat Lies Underneath: Germs Straphangers Carry
New Yorkers are known for schlepping bags: brief cases, luggage, backpacks, lady totes or man-purses. Plenty of them end up on a subway floor during a crowded commute.What's lurking on the bottom of...
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In Ranking Subways, the #7 Is Number One
The Straphangers Campaign has crowned a new subway line, and the #7 is now king.Its new State of the Subways survey ranked the #7 highest for arriving regularly, having relatively clean cars, a good...
View ArticleThis Bus Is Slower Than a Lava Flow
This year's Pokey for New York City's slowest bus line goes to the M79, with an average speed of 3.2 miles per hour.“I’d think twice before trying to evacuate from an erupting volcano in an M79 bus,”...
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