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Demanding Transit Accountability: Can Someone Please Explain How $358 Million Can Turn Into $20 Million?

“This MTA budget not only lacks accountability, but is also most certainly not elementary, my dear Dr. Watson!” Source: The Gentleman BlogTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: This can only happen in government. Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that he is making $358 million more available for the MTA [http://www.governor.ny.

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MTA Debt Downgraded As Governor Cuomo Sits On Lockbox Bill

(image from Transportation Nation)In a move that could spell disaster for the MTA’s capital construction program, Fitch, smallest of the three top credit rating agencies, has downgraded the authority’s debt from A+ to A. The bad news comes as the Transit Funding Lockbox Act, a bill that

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MTA Says "No" To Food Ban On Trains

You know the scene. You’ve been there. You hop on the train at Sheepshead Bay Road. A few stops down the line, someone gets on with some crappy Chinese food. Or ketchup-drowned french fries. Or curry. Or, hell, spaghetti [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az4qASdPD4Y&feature=player_embedded]