#MTA not ready for congestion pricing toll complaint surge, IG says

#MTA not ready for congestion pricing toll complaint surge, IG says

“#MTA not ready for congestion pricing toll complaint surge, IG says” The MTA is not ready to handle the influx of tolling complaints expected from congestion pricing, the authority’s inspector general suggested Monday. Transportation Authority officials have done little to study the underlying causes of thousands of toll complaints and are playing catch-up to develop a “modern…

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#NYC driver killed crashing ‘headlong’ into MTA bus

#NYC driver killed crashing ‘headlong’ into MTA bus

“#NYC driver killed crashing ‘headlong’ into MTA bus” A 40-year-old man was killed when he drove “headlong” into an MTA bus, completely crushing his vehicle, on Staten Island, according to police and video.  Mikhail Sukhitskiy of New Dorp Beach was driving his Subaru sedan west on Ebbitts Avenue when he hit the bus, which was…

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#MTA ‘shifting priorities’ put overtime reforms ‘at risk’

#MTA ‘shifting priorities’ put overtime reforms ‘at risk’

“#MTA ‘shifting priorities’ put overtime reforms ‘at risk’” The MTA’s antiquated overtime system continues to work OT for cash-grab scams as the agency’s $31 million effort to curtail potential payroll pilfering is “at-risk,” according to the agency’s Inspector General. The multi-million effort to prevent overtime abuse is failing as officials slow-roll the integration of modern…

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#NYC issuing more bus lane tickets than ever before

#NYC issuing more bus lane tickets than ever before

“#NYC issuing more bus lane tickets than ever before” New York City is bus-ting more drivers for blocking bus lanes than ever before — including a million being issued over the last three years. City stats show the number of tickets has risen steadily since the agency began using bus lane cameras in 2010, as…

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#MTA negligence let possible Access-A-Ride fraud go undetected

#MTA negligence let possible Access-A-Ride fraud go undetected

“#MTA negligence let possible Access-A-Ride fraud go undetected” Lackluster strategies for identifying fraud in the MTA’s Access-A-Ride program allowed potential criminal activity to persist unchecked, the MTA Inspector General said. An audit by the IG’s office released Monday found Access-A-Ride contractor Curb Mobility, which provides on-demand rides to New Yorkers with disabilities, failed to enact specific…

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#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin

#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin

“#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin” The Wall Street Journal wrote Tuesday that President Biden was making another attempt to salvage his stalled legislative agenda by meeting separately with progressive and moderate Democrats.   The next sentence was more telling: The moderates were Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The progressives were too numerous…

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#M bus ‘war room’ empty, falling apart two years later

#$86M bus ‘war room’ empty, falling apart two years later

“#$86M bus ‘war room’ empty, falling apart two years later” Brooklyn, we have a problem. The MTA spent $86 million on a state-of-the-art, NASA-like “bus command center” that has gone unused for more than two years because it’s already falling apart, The Post has learned. Transit officials have said the eastern Brooklyn command center, which replaces a…

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