Sentences with phrase «of fair fares»

The location is also meant to raise awareness of the Fair Fares initiative, the advocates said.

He's a proponent of making portions of Broadway permanently car - free, and is committed to working for implementation of Fair Fares and a five - borough bike - share system.

At 9:30 a.m., criminal justice reform advocates and public defenders for #FairFares announce a series of speak - outs across NYC in support of Fair Fares, ahead of the final NYC Council Transportation Committee budget hearing, outside City Hall R subway stop, Manhattan.

Also at noon, Community Service Society and Riders Alliance's Grassroots Fair Fares leaders engage subway riders to call de Blasio's office and get on the record in support of Fair Fares, corner of the intersection of West 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, in front of the the A / B / C / D subway stop, Manhattan.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. and other elected officials rally for the inclusion of the Fair Fares proposal in the fiscal 2019 New York City budget, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

Dyson speaks from experience, of course - he's someone who has chosen to go against the tide plenty of times in his career so far, and yeah, it's fair to say that he's fared the better for it.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

At a rally at City Hall on Wednesday morning with the «Fair Fares» coalition — which consists of 68 organizations — Johnson noted that rent, food and Metrocard fares have increased over the years, with wages going down or remaining stagFares» coalition — which consists of 68 organizations — Johnson noted that rent, food and Metrocard fares have increased over the years, with wages going down or remaining stagfares have increased over the years, with wages going down or remaining stagnant.

Tech Style NYC (it's supposed to sound like «textile») highlights companies like Nuzzle, a sleek GPS tracker for dogs; Earin, a small, wireless headphone; Maven, bottled wine and liquor cocktails; and Fair Fare, an app that let's you compare surge pricing of different ride - hailing companies.

Fare expects to add at least 700 additional drivers — many of them former Uber and Lyft drivers who turned out at job fairs this week — to its fleet once their background checks are completed, Leto said.

It is a fair indication of Matty Virtue's belief in his ability that, when asked how he feels he has fared up at Melwood this season, he replies: «I don't feel out of place at all».

De Blasio — who has resisted including the «Fair Fares» (city - funded half - priced Metro Cards) measure in his budget — was massively outnumbered by an army of city elected officials, district attorneys and labor leaders who called on him to pony up $ 212 million for it in his executive budget.

As a response, more than half of the City Council has signed a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm affirming their support for Fair Fares.

MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS — Johnson proposes cutting Council initiatives in search for Fair Fares cash — POLITICO's Gloria Pazmino and Brendan Cheney: Speaker Corey Johnson is floating a proposal to defund some Council spending initiatives as a way to pay for the Fair Fares plan, the Council's biggest budget request — and one that Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he has no intention of funding.

However, last month, the City Council proposed allocating $ 212 million from the city's budget to fund the program after more than half of its members penned a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm, affirming their support for Fair Fares.

«We, as lawmakers, can help ensure that those living below the poverty line are able to take the bus or subway to appointments, work and school by making the Fair Fares plan a reality, guaranteeing half price MetroCards for some of our city's most vulnerable.»

«I believe the millionaires tax is still the best, most reliable, most verifiable way to get that permanent funding for the MTA, especially because our vision for the millionaires tax includes the Fair Fares concept, meaning half price Metrocards for low - income New Yorkers as a matter of equity and fairness and creating opportunity,» he said.

Partnering with civil right organizers, anti-poverty groups, and transit advocates, the Riders Alliance is heading to various subway stations and bus stops in an effort to recruit hundreds of riders to call the mayor's office and ask him to adopt Fair Fares.

«Liberal Youth Wales have been campaigning for fairer fares for young people on public transport and I am delighted that as a result of our influence in budget negotiations, young people across Wales will now benefit from reduced fares when travelling by bus.»

«It's just not fair for people who, through no fault of their own, have to take three rides and are in a two - fare zone.»

Val Shawcross AM published Cost of Living: Fair Fares and found that 84 % of Londoners think that public transport fares are too Fares and found that 84 % of Londoners think that public transport fares are too fares are too high.

He added, «But it just seems to me that at a time of mass income and wealth inequality, when you've got a real problem here in terms of the subway while the very wealthiest people are getting richer, what the mayor is saying — let's reduce fares for working people, let's rebuild the subway system, improve the buses, and ask the people on top to pay a little more in taxes — I think that that is fair.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

The income threshold to qualify for the Fair Fares program would be defined by the federal poverty line, which is $ 23,339 for a family of four, according to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who is also a rumored 2021 mayoral candidate.

«Our Fair Fares proposal could save working poor New Yorkers hundreds of dollars a year and give them the freedom to access more of what New York City can offer them and their families.

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Among key recommendations, the Council is calling on the mayor to fund «Fair Fares,» a proposal formulated by a group of transit advocates to provide half - price MetroCards to 800,000 low - income New Yorkers.

De Blasio pitched a millionaire's tax proposal to fund MTA repairs as well as subsidized fares for low - income New Yorkers, addressing another area of significant criticism, his unwillingness to fund the «Fair Fares» campfares for low - income New Yorkers, addressing another area of significant criticism, his unwillingness to fund the «Fair Fares» campFares» campaign.

The Council launched a «digital day of action» to convince Mayor Bill de Blasio to fund a «Fair Fares» program that would help low - income straphangers afford to get around.

As to fair fares, he believes that at least some of the revenues from the Fix NYC plan should be allocated to it on a yearly basis.

The new tax would also finance half - priced MetroCards for low - income New Yorkers by using $ 250 million of the revenue, helping up to 800,000 New Yorkers (in response to advocates» call for «Fair Fares» in the past, de Blasio said the funding should come from the state).

With comments this week, the council speaker signaled that the «Fair Fares» plan is one of his top priorities for the new city budget, which the council must negotiate with the mayor.

Her organizational skills — developed by her experiences helping to organize the Careers seminar series, the Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) competition (see below), and the NIH Job Fair — have proved valuable in handling the details of creating the needed infrastructure.

Fair spoke at a 9 September briefing on Capitol Hill, as one of three scientists presenting the latest research on why these children tend to fare poorly in school and what can be done about it.

This one in particular — there we were, in the middle of the most stunning botanic park, surrounded by medieval fare, Celtic warriors, and fair maidens, trailing through the gardens like some sort of whimsical fairy tale.

In any case, there's a fair balance of spectacle and more muted fare hitting theaters this month.

Waking Life is one of the most interesting and engaging films of a year that sports its fair share of complex, fascinating fare (Mulholland Drive, Va Savoir).

Instances of strong adult language, some mild sexual situations, and one mildly risqué musical performance, «Otto Titsling» (edited out in TV airings), earn the film its PG - 13 rating, though to be fair, it's much tamer than today's typical PG - 13 fare.

But once the focus shifts to countries abroad and fair, apples - to - apples comparisons are made, it becomes manifest that nearly all of our young people — from privileged and not - so - privileged backgrounds — are not faring well.

However, I have also been told that the fact they charge so many fees has helped them fare better than the US banks during this economic downturn because a fair portion of their revenue is made off of the fees.

Award mileage accrual for tickets on partner airlines that are not issued by United, and for specialty tickets where United does not know what fare was paid (including unpublished, consolidator, bulk, group and tour tickets), is based on fair class and distance flown, not the cost of the ticket.

While typical Costa Rican restaurants attract their fair share of business, foreigners have brought the fares of their homelands, as well.

No more class of service bonuses, people buying the cheapest fares earn fewer miles, but apparently simpler and fairer.

At that rate, you would be getting fair value using 40,000 miles to buy a flight that had a base fare of $ 400.

Every time a new free - to - play game clamors for coin, gamers bemoan the lack of more traditional mobile fare — quality premium titles packed with compelling content at a fair fixed price.

But not everyone is sold on Nintendo's new handheld / console mashup, and a fair chunk of potential users are going to hold back and see whether Switch fares better than Wii U in its infant months.

Yayoi Kusama, The Armory Show Platform Never not working, even as she's approaching her nineties, the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama made an aluminum installation especially for the Armory Show, filling the fair's lounge space with her usual fare of polka dots as they truly take over her expansive retrospective, which just kicked off its tour in Washington D.C.

With the Armory Show, Whitney Biennial, and a whole slew of satellite fairs and biennials popping up next week, we thought this week would be full of light fare.