Sentences with phrase «transit authorities have»

Traditionally, transit authorities have kept close tabs on who has access to their data, and how it can be used.

Despite its widely acknowledged advantages in safety, speed, and efficiency in transit applications, governments and transit authorities have been extremely slow to adopt maglev due to cost.

Many municipal transit authorities have been sued, sparking the ire of the American Public Transit Association.

Even though the New York City Transit Authority has already begun to slowly install such protection partitions to deter misbehavior and protect transit employees, this bill would encourage and ultimately bring about quicker installation of these devices.

This comes after recent news the transit authority would be cutting the Bx14 bus line.

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It takes 24 seconds to stop a BART train, and the transit authority has already installed an automatic braking system triggered by ShakeAlert to stop its trains when a major earthquake is on the way, thereby significantly reducing the risk of derailment and deaths.

In Washington, the federal government, city offices and schools are shuttered today, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has suspended subway and bus service.

Over the last nine years the N.Y.C. Transit Authority has worked with the national artificial reef building program to sink around 1,800 subway cars.

In most cases it is two years, but in some instances like an accident with a Chicago Transit Authority you have as little as six months to take action.

On Feb. 15, news broke that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority had settled lawsuits with seven of the nine estates and that the defendants had decided to stipulate to liability.

Not exact matches

The proposed rule would also apply to governmental jurisdictions or transit authorities that provide commuter rail service — none of which is small for purposes of the SBA (i.e., no entity serves a locality with a population less Start Printed Page 38437than 50,000).

TransLink, as the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority is known, has control over all public transit and roads in Vancouver and its surrounding cities.

Thailand's Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) has announced that the 50 - 50 joint venture company of SNC - Lavalin Inc. and Ch.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in New York couldn't explain why the 36th Street station's step was taller when they announced the stairs would be closed and rebuilt, while there have been no explanations in Reading or Columbus.

In some sensitive appointments, however, such as those to the Chicago Park District board and the Chicago Transit Authority board, Vrdolyak predicted that the opposition would stand firm.

Cuomo appeared to finally embrace the issues over the summer, declaring a «state of emergency» for the transit authority and overseeing a Subway Action Plan that MTA Chairman Joe Lhota had unveiled to improve service.

According to the plan, the new tolls would not only function as a way to raise money for the MTA (the city pledged more than $ 2 billion to the transit authority's recent capital plan), but would also help reduce existing tolls on crossings such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

The plan would have the Empire State Development Corp. work with the Metropolitan Transit Authority to redevelop several blocks around the station.

MTA chief Tom Prendergast said he hasn't tried to pressure Cuomo into restoring $ 40 million in transit funds in the budget — money that advocates say could stave off fare hikes or add service — because the authority's «needs are being met.»

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

OUR PRUDISH TRANSIT AUTHORITY — Gothamist's Ben Yakas: «If you've been unlucky enough to be on the subway surrounded by those creepy new Roman erectile dysfunction ads, then you know the MTA is comfortable with a certain amount of racy advertising material.

Disapproval was especially high among minority voters and on Staten Island — where 58 percent of those polled said they didn't like the job he'd done at the helm of transit authority, which recently spiked bridge tolls.

If the state's sales tax collections flattened or shrank, the Upstate transit authorities like Centro would get the same amount from the state as the previous year, according to the proposal.

Prendergast's Metropolitan Transportation Authority career has included stints as president of the LIRR and NYC Transit, and MTA chairman and CEO since June 2013.

The money would be dedicated to mass transit systems around the state, particularly the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

I have long held the position that we need more local authority on our Transit system.

When the MTA board officially approved the plan last week, many elected officials and transit advocates were surprised to learn that the second phase of the Second Avenue subway, extending from 96th Street to 125th Street in Manhattan, would be put off past 2019 after the authority cut $ 1 billion from its capital plan.

PRESS RELEASE New City, NY (July 3, 2013)-- Rockland County Legislator Ed Day (New City - Pomona) is sponsoring a resolution to call upon the State Assembly to pass Assembly Bill A. 1443, that would phase out the Metropolitan Transit Authority payroll mobility tax in 2017 and related Assembly Bill A. 7775 that would immediately exempt community colleges -LSB-...]

The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's Transit Police have been using body cameras for roughly 18 months.

New York City Transit Authority President Thomas Prendergast has in the past taken the reins when Lhota has been out of town, but ultimately the decision will fall to Gov. Cuomo to appoint a replacement.

ESU reports the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's transit grant could be cut by $ 38,325 and its Port Security Grant would be cut by $ 12,500.

At the behest of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, insular leaders in New York City have floated the idea of reinstating a long - repealed discriminatory tax against workers who live outside the five boroughs.

Still, the decision to build an extension has not yet been made, said Thomas George, director of public transit for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

That public watchdog probe was supposed to address how the New York City Transit Authority made knowingly false, fake and inflammatory information about myself, when they chose to state in writing to the Department of Labor that I had falsified records, documents and company sign sheets.

With so many scandals of corruption that effect and relate to constituents like me who have practically had to beg for proper representation with regard to honest, ethical city and state government leadership, I should not have to lose my pension, present and future because of false, fake and failed leadership — and the very public representatives who have collectively been the obstacle to fair labor practices and treatment, that now overshadow any corruption and misconduct by the Transit Authority and MTA.

Whereas Michael Boxer could have recommended immediate reinstatement that could have made me «whole» again, he chose to conclude his own internal report that was three years delinquent by stating that, «Serious questions are raised about Mr. Iritano and record falsification,» which was simply not true, and firmly supported by the Transit Authority's complete reversal of all misconduct allegations against me during oral argument in Appellate Court, Second Department, on May 9, 1991.

The corruption, cover up and sabotage were never addressed by the Transit Authority, or its parent company, the MTA and its Inspector General's Office where General Counsel Michael Boxer has always been wholly aware of the dishonesty perpetuated by the MTA.

The state Legislature has approved a measure that paves the road for the Capital Region's mass transit authority, the CDTA, to bring uniformity to the area's patchwork of taxis.

Congress has dropped plans to slash mass transit funding for «high density» states such as New York, meaning the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will not be losing $ 3.6 million annually in federal aid after all.

And after a bitter clash with Mr. Cuomo last fall over boosting the city's contribution to the state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mr. de Blasio agreed to cough up $ 2.5 billion toward the transit system — only to have the MTA shear funding for construction of the Second Avenue Subway by nearly $ 1 billion.

In the past, Squadron has requested full reviews of subway lines as a way of focusing the transit authority on critical service issues.

Republican Joe Lhota, a businessman, former chair of the city transit authority and deputy mayor under Republican Rudy Giuliani, has repeatedly accused Democrat Bill de Blasio of being soft on crime, lambasting de Blasio's reaction to a recent incident in New York involving a large group of motorcycle riders who chased and beat the driver of an SUV.

In addition, within the next two years, all existing equipment on each bus would have to be synchronized so that when an emergency button is activated, the precise location of the bus would be relayed to a transit authority's command center via a GPS device.

Carson has also illustrated two books, «Pow - wow» and «Cloudwalker,» and has produced public art for the Niagara Frontier Transit Authority and the Southern Tier Expressway.

ALBANY — Calling the Metropolitan Transit Authority's refusal to release payroll information part of a «pattern of conduct,» the Empire Center for Public Policy has filed a lawsuit against the M.T.A., in an attempt to compel the agency to honor its Freedom of Information Law requests for payroll data.

Lhota, who proposed an $ 836 million emergency plan, said Monday that the mayor «has acknowledged New York City's significant ownership of the New York City Transit Authority and the fact that new funding is needed to modernize the subway system.»

The source of de Blasio's joviality might have been the enthusiasm of the crowd, with the most recent New York Times / Siena College poll that showed him with a 45 - point lead over his republican opponent and former Metro Transit Authority Chairman, Joe Lhota.

Downstate, Cuomo has committed to contributing $ 8.3 billion toward the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $ 29 billion plan to modernize the transit system with new subway cars and buses and 30 redesigned subway stations.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just announced he has rejected a $ 118 million contract between the NYC Transit Authority and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the firm that designed the scandal - plagued CityTime payroll system, saying the firm's role in the mess «remains unclear.»