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A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers.
NEW YORK CITY — A Long Island Rail Road worker claimed 10 hours a day of overtime, earning $344,000 extra pay, while he actually went bowling.
In 2003, the LIRR and Metro-North started a pilot program in which passengers traveling within New York City were allowed to buy one-way tickets for $2.50. [63] The special reduced-fare CityTicket, proposed by the New York City Transit Riders Council, [63] was formally introduced in 2004. [64]
The New York Times described MTA funds as a "piggy bank" for the state, with the issuance of MTA bonds benefiting the state at the MTA's expense. [16] By 2017, a sixth of the MTA's budget was allocated to paying off debt, a threefold proportional increase from 1997.
Fare-Evading MTA Worker Resists Arrest In Subway Station, Police Say - New York City, NY - An MTA worker, Richard Louis, 35, went through an emergency gate without paying a fare, and got into a ...
The ATU represents 1,750 bus employees in Queens and Staten Island, while the TWU represents 33,000 transit employees. [23] The 12-day strike leads to passage of the Taylor Law, redefining the rights and limitations of unions for public employees in New York. [24] 1983: Greyhound faces growing competition and is forced to drop its fares. To ...
Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100, which represents the transport workers of New ...
[25] [26] [27] "OMNY" is an acronym for "One Metro New York", intended to signify its eventual broad acceptance across the New York metropolitan area. [27] However, goals for broad acceptance have since been hampered, with PATH and NJ Transit unwilling to install OMNY, instead pursuing similar independent systems which would not be compatible ...