Archive for July, 2010
TransportAzumah Receives Restraining Order
Eight days ago, I wrote about 16-year-old Ali Fadil of Little Neck, Queens. He was the starting force behind the QM22 being saved after it was one of the numerous routes to be cut by the MTA due to their financial crisis. Ali had reached out to elected officials & got nowhere in his attempts […]
Clerk Assaulted While Trying To Help A Rider
This story should cause some interesting debate in the fight of the usefulness & need for token booth clerks in the NYC Subway. Elected officials & transit advocates like to point out at every possible chance that eliminating these positions poses as a threat to riders security even though rules are in place preventing them […]
Bill S3772-A Stalls In The State Assembly
Last Wednesday, I strongly opined on a terrible piece of legislation that would derail the MTA’s much needed plans to save during their financial crisis. The legislation in question was Bill S3772-A which passed in the State Senate. It would have prevented the MTA from laying off many positions under the false paradigm of security […]
MTA Eliminates 120 More Workers
The cost cutting via blue-collar workforce positions within the MTA continued this past Friday as the agency laid off 120 more workers. At the same time, they filled a new white-collar management position by hiring Diana Ritter Jones & giving her a $217,000 annual salary. Pete Donohue of the New York Daily News has more: […]
Bronx Assemblyman Wants Help From The MTA
The much maligned service cuts have received numerous attention from this blog & others like it across the web. The sentiment shared by riders has not only been on the web though as they have taken to the streets to protest in Brooklyn & Queens respectively. If any one borough was hit hardest by bus […]
