Sentences with phrase «city transit from»

He joined the MTA in 2017 as chief operating officer and was acting president of New York City Transit from October to January last year.

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The vehicles affected are 2015 - 17 Ford Transit vehicles built at Ford's Kansas City Assembly Plant, from Feb. 3, 2014, to Aug. 2, 2017.

«City officials may not understand that they will get access to very little of what Google learns from their citizens... Meanwhile, Google will be gaining insights about urban life — including energy use, transit effectiveness, climate mitigation strategies, and social service delivery patterns — that it will then be able to resell to cities around the world.

In fact, I'm writing this while stuck on a NJ Transit commuter train from New York City, which has lost power and is in the middle of the track somewhere near Secaucus.

We love that you're looking for cities that have robust public transit infrastructure — but we know that an influx of 50,000 new people will strain our existing service, and building new transit to serve Amazon could divert funds from the rest of us.

While cities such as Boston and New York are well - known for their efficient public transit systems, both suffer from aging infrastructure and struggle to keep up with existing demand.

In «Tapping the Land: Tax Increment Financing of Infrastructure,» author Adam Found shows how cities could use tax increment financing (TIF) to finance infrastructure ranging from sports arenas to public transit.

But unlike the transit hub, built largely with federal transportation money, the church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.

It may sound redundant on the heels of Thanksgiving, but for Thanksgiving this year we were graced with airport and airline food as we were in transit home from a trip to New York City.

MiamiCentral is an 11 - acre, transit - oriented mixed - use development spanning over six city blocks in the heart of downtown Miami from Florida East Coast Industries, one of the oldest leading real estate and infrastructure developers in Florida.

A mass transit system was needed to move these people from their homes in the suburbs to the city centre, and attempts at using chain - driven buses had already failed.

I used for a long period of time (five hours) when we were transiting from one city to another by walking, train, water taxi, and all while rolling / carrying luggage.

With a modernization plan due soon from the new head of the MTA's New York City Transit division and another five - year MTA capital plan looming, all signs point to the governor asking the city to yet again allocate additional funds toward the state - controlled City Transit division and another five - year MTA capital plan looming, all signs point to the governor asking the city to yet again allocate additional funds toward the state - controlled city to yet again allocate additional funds toward the state - controlled MTA.

In a forthcoming report from New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management by Eric Kober entitled «Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for Transit,» Kober writes that the first, similar iteration of the proposal «diverts New York City's largest and most stable tax source in a manner that could affect the City's fiscal stability.»

But it also presents grim funding questions for the MTA and other big - city transit agencies, according to the analysis, a joint study from transportation advocacy groups Riders Alliance and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

De Blasio's plan received a cold embrace from some transit experts, several of whom feared that any enforcement - led traffic measure would fail on the basis that the NYPD has been largely ineffective in cracking down on offenses such as double parking, blocking the box or the abuse of city - issued parking placards.

«Our transit system needs adequate and stable funding from both the city and state, dynamic solutions brought forth by the MTA, and chutzpah from Governor Cuomo to lead the city out of this transit crisis.»

A host of other special interests — ranging from upstate mayors and county executives to Mothers Against Drunk Driving to the NAACP — all lauded Cuomo's plan, pointing to everything from ride - sharing that gets drunks off the road to transit efforts that will help inner - city workers get to jobs.

Overriding proposals from the Assembly and State Senate, the governor continues to pick the pocket of New York City's transit system, diverting $ 30 million from the MTA in the state budget.

The money collected from the endeavor would go to funding repairs to the city's ailing public transit system, while also easing record traffic in Manhattan.

The handful of elected officials from the state and city level have forcefully denounced the prospect of new bridge tolls as Cuomo drafts a congestion pricing plan for New York City that would raise revenue for its mass transit netwcity level have forcefully denounced the prospect of new bridge tolls as Cuomo drafts a congestion pricing plan for New York City that would raise revenue for its mass transit netwCity that would raise revenue for its mass transit network.

The funds generated from this fee, as much as $ 525 million per year, will be poured into MTA coffers to fix the city's ailing public transit system.

Transit advocates were fuming Monday after getting complaints from supporters who tried calling the publicly listed phone number for City Hall...

ALBANY — Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) emerged from a meeting with legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying more funding for mass transit and crumbling public housing in New York City are part of a «tentative deal» on the state budget.

Paterson quickly signed five pieces of legislation on his first day in office: to add the New York State Department of Labor to the New York City Transit Track Safety Task Force; to eliminate a law that discouraged employers from holding blood drives; to change the way in which members are appointed to a state health and research board; to restore eligibility caps to certain senior employment programs; and to grant tax exemptions to several local development corporations in New York State.

Although a wide - range of topics were discussed, such as mass transit options and Hurricane Sandy recovery, one local issue raised had to do with the recent snow storm and its lackluster response from the city.

From the upstate economy to the city's foundering mass - transit system, there are plenty of issues that both candidates will likely tackle between now and the primary in September.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing backlash from the city's transport workers union for skipping out on funeral services for two transit workers killed on the job last month.

«No one can excuse the mayor from being responsible for the public transportation system, the New York City transit that is encompassed wholly in his cCity transit that is encompassed wholly in his citycity.

After the deadly pickup truck attack in lower Manhattan, commuters traveling to and from New York City can expect to see more security at «high - profile» sites, including mass transit systems, airports, bridges and tunnels, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday evening.

He must resign from the MTA because city law prohibits him from running for mayor while holding the position of chairman at the transit agency.

The Mayor's proposal is straightforward: increase the income tax on people who can most easily bear it, and who benefit from the city's having a functioning public transit system whether or not they use it themselves.

When Mr. Miller showed me the reply to his letter to Ms. Quinn, dated December 6, 22012, it yet again contradicts her initial letter to me from six years ago, suggesting that her office can not help me, despite an incomplete investigation by DOI investigators, intimating that the Transit Authority is a state governed agency (I maintained a CITY pension with New York City Employees» Retirement System, and the agency that I worked for is the MTA New York City Transit).

But the upstagings and rank - pullings kept coming — from Cuomo's blindsiding of de Blasio with an Ebola quarantine to a last - minute request for $ 1 billion more in city transit funding to sudden inspections of city homeless shelters — and the rewards kept diminishing.

Asked about his latest commute by subway, de Blasio said his morning trip from Gracie Mansion to Brooklyn and then to City Hall is logistically too complicated for mass transit.

To encourage a shift away from cars, officials in each of the far - flung cities added new buses, bike lanes and other public transit services.

BOSTON — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined mayors from across the U.S. on Monday to demand increased federal transportation funding, promising a campaign to get Washington to spend more on bridges, roads and improvements to mass - transit systems.

New York City transit riders might have taken some small measure of satisfaction from the sight of Carl Kruger resigning from the State Senate earlier this week.

As part of his ongoing rift with de Blasio, Cuomo reportedly has told his top police executives to pull investigators from various state and federal task forces and dispatch them — in uniform — to the city's high - profile transit hubs to boost the state's profile there.

In the wake of the deal for the New York City - based transit system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo now faces a rallying cry from upstate and Long Island: parity.

A proposal to charge motorists a fee to enter congested parts of Manhattan would only affect a small portion of commuters from New York City's outer boroughs and suburbs, according to an analysis by a transit - advocacy group.

At 10:30 a.m., NYC Council Member Mark Levine will be joined by several members from the Bus Turnaround Coalition in Upper Manhattan to speak about New York City's other transit crisis — the bus system — in addition to calling for significantly faster implementation of Transit Signal Priority, NW Corner of 145th and Broadway, New Yortransit crisis — the bus system — in addition to calling for significantly faster implementation of Transit Signal Priority, NW Corner of 145th and Broadway, New YorTransit Signal Priority, NW Corner of 145th and Broadway, New York City.

Ken McLeod at Binghamton University is developing an air taxi transit system that would bring passengers from Binghamton to New York City in 57 minutes.

The most recent reason for his new unpopularity comes from the new frustrations city residents face riding public transit, with its never - ending breakdowns, project delays and general mismanagement.

A proposal to charge motorists a fee to enter congested parts of Manhattan would only affect a small portion of commuters from New York City's outer boroughs and suburbs, according to an analysis published Tuesday by a transit - advocacy group.

«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»

What caught our attention from Vince's questionnaire / interview: «I support public transit and incentives for commuting and efforts to limit cars into the city as busiest times of day.»

Cuomo also underscored his previous announcements that proposed billions of dollars in construction programs, including an overhaul of Penn Station in Manhattan, a third rail for the Long Island Rail Road in Nassau County, a possible tunnel from Long Island to Westchester County, the Bronx or Connecticut, and a $ 26 billion capital program for New York City mass transit partly paid by the cCity mass transit partly paid by the citycity.

But Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota said a contribution from the city to fix the transit system can not wait.

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