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Thomas Prendergast Brings Stability to the MTA
2015-05-02 10:24:14| Railroads - Topix.net
The MTA is the circulatory system of our city, carrying over 11 million passengers a day to school, work, shopping and social occasions. Now is not the time for a change in leadership at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Bay Ridge: Mta adding new ramps to Verrazano approach
2015-05-01 08:10:34| Railroads - Topix.net
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is building new ramps to the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge - adding to what the bridge's original engineer called a "spaghetti pile" of existing ascents - in an effort to speed along drivers on the Gordian knot of interchanges tying the bridge to the Belt Parkway and Gowanus Expressway. "The project will involve the construction of a new ramp which will weave its way through the spaghetti pile formed by the existing and complex ramp network forming the Brooklyn approaches to the bridge," according to a memo from Ammann & Whitney, the firm that designed the bridge and which is overseeing construction on the new ramps.
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MTA Head Says Riders Won't Be on Hook to Close $14B Budget Gap
2015-04-30 16:46:48| Railroads - Topix.net
As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority seeks to close a $14 billion gap in its capital plan, the agency's chief insists riders won't be forced to pay more if the money doesn't materialize. "We have never, ever closed a Capital Program on the backs of the fare payers.
$15B MTA budget gap won't be plugged by fare hikes, Prendergast says
2015-04-30 09:32:14| Railroads - Topix.net
MTA president Thomas F. Prendergast speaks to the press after a board meeting in lower Manhattan on April 29, 2015. Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang MTA president Thomas F. Prendergast speaks to the press after a board meeting in lower Manhattan on April 29, 2015.
MTA Leaders Criticize Proposal to Decriminalize Turnstile-Jumping
2015-04-29 06:06:29| Railroads - Topix.net
With the Metropolitan Transportation Authority losing more than a million dollars a week to farebeating, some of the agency's board members are speaking out against a City Council proposal to decriminalize turnstile-jumping. On this issue, the MTA's is finding some powerful allies on its side.
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