#Ex-MTA accessibility czar leaked confidential info: watchdog

#Ex-MTA accessibility czar leaked confidential info: watchdog

“#Ex-MTA accessibility czar leaked confidential info: watchdog” The former accessibility czar for New York City’s subways and buses quit last year after violating ethics rules by giving an MTA contractor advance notice that its bid was going to be rejected — while firing off emails to transit officials imploring them to reconsider, the agency’s inspector…

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#How NYC’s next mayor can lure back commuters who left

#How NYC’s next mayor can lure back commuters who left

“#How NYC’s next mayor can lure back commuters who left” Thanks to COVID, most New Yorkers are no longer captive to a five-day-a-week commute. How does the next mayor lure people back without choking the city on traffic? The pandemic altered Goth­amites’ transportation habits on a scale not seen since the subway opened in 1904,…

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#NYC Transit Museum lays off a third of staff

#NYC Transit Museum lays off a third of staff

“#NYC Transit Museum lays off a third of staff” New York’s beloved Transit Museum laid off a third of its staff last month, former employees told The Post — citing pandemic-induced hardship one year after COVID-19 broke out in the city. The 24 discharged workers included full-time and part-time workers in retail, education, curation and…

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#MTA will continue 0M-a-year subway cleaning after COVID

#MTA will continue $300M-a-year subway cleaning after COVID

“#MTA will continue $300M-a-year subway cleaning after COVID” The MTA continue splashing out for its $300 million-per-year subway cleaning effort into the future — even as the COVID-19 crisis that spurred the practice winds down, officials said Tuesday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and transit officials instituted the “24/7” subway cleaning effort in the spring as ridership…

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#MTA calls off wage freeze after Biden signs COVID stimulus

#MTA calls off wage freeze after Biden signs COVID stimulus

“#MTA calls off wage freeze after Biden signs COVID stimulus” MTA officials have called off plans to renege on schedule wage increase — after receiving an influx of $6.5 billion from the new stimulus bill. “Now that Congress — under the leadership of Senate Majority Schumer, Speaker Pelosi and the bipartisan New York delegation —…

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