Posts Tagged ‘transit’

Millions riding on transit deal

Just get it done.

With the contract between the transit workers union and the MTA about to expire, management and labor officials will try to hash out a new three-year deal this week.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has talked about budget gaps and a need to freeze wages for three years.

View full post on NYDN Rss Article only

Transit union honcho: ‘We won’t be bullied’ 

Transit workers won’t be “bullied or blackmailed” into a no-raise contract, their union president vowed as labor negotiations began Tuesday.

TRANSIT WORKERS won’t be “bullied or blackmailed” into a no-raise contract, their union president vowed as labor negotiations began Tuesday.

View full post on NYDN Rss Article only

MTA still scrambling to get mass transit back

As Irene flounced off to New England, New Yorkers waited with increasing frustration to learn when the city’s transit system will be back up and running. The Staten Island ferry was due to resume hourly service at 3 p.m.

View full post on NYDailyNews.com – Breaking News

NYC transit begins rare shutdown as storm nears (AP)

Thomas Walker, of Merrick, N.Y., who runs a business on the Coney Island boardwalk, looks out over the adjacent closed beach as he and others await the arrival of Hurricane Irene, Saturday, Aug. 27 2011, in the Coney Island section of  New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP – The city’s mass transit system began its first shutdown brought on by a natural disaster Saturday, and the area’s five airports stopped accepting arriving flights as Hurricane Irene approached.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Irene evacuations, transit shutdown ordered in NYC (AP)

Shoppers stock up on water from rapidly emptying shelves at a grocery store in Far Rockaway in New York, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday urged New York City residents living in low-lying areas to line up a place to stay on high ground ahead of a possible evacuation this weekend due to Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP – In an unprecedented decision, nearly 300,000 people who live in flood-prone areas of New York City were ordered to evacuate Friday as Hurricane Irene sets its sights on the nation’s largest city. New Yorkers, many of them without cars, don’t have much time to get out of the way before the city shutters its subways, buses and trains on Saturday.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

NYC mass transit to shut down at noon

After meeting with his cabinet Friday, Gov. Cuomo announced the MTA will begin a system-wide shutdown beginning at noon on Saturday.

View full post on NYDailyNews.com – Breaking News

SF transit blocks cellphones to hinder protest (AP)

FILE - Commuters enter and exit a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco's financial district in this Sept. 15, 1997 file photo. Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as  BART, said Friday Aug. 12, 2011 that they blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting. (AP Photo/Robin Weiner, File)AP – Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Amazon Free Clicks