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A Nassau legislative hearing to review the county’s $2.6 billion 2012 budget turned chaotic early Friday afternoon when residents and MTA Long Island Bus drivers refused to cede the floor, demanding more time to be heard during a 30-minute public comment session.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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10/28/11
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The cost of a monthly Long Island Rail Road pass from West Hempstead to Manhattan is $223. From Rockville Centre, it’s $254. For that amount of money, LIRR commuters should not have to sit in …
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Lee Landor
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10/19/11
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Some 500 people attended two days of job fairs hosted by Veolia Transportation to learn more about positions with Long Island Bus. Veolia, selected by Nassau County to become its partner in operating …
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10/5/11
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Nassau County’s soon-to-be new public bus system operator, Veolia Transportation Inc., held a job fair of sorts for potential employees earlier this month.Veolia representatives spent about …
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Lee Landor
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9/28/11
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Some 120 feet below the streets of Manhattan, thousands of workers contracted by MTA Capital Construction have been drilling and blasting through bedrock since September 2007 to build a set of Long Island Rail Road tunnels that will eventually connect the Island, including the South Shore, with Grand Central Terminal and the Metro-North Railroad. Tunneling on the Manhattan side of the “East Side Access Project,” as it’s known, is complete, and work on the Queens side, which began in May, is well under way.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/9/11
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Long Island employers got a bit of good news earlier this month when the State Senate passed a bill to repeal the MTA payroll tax — shortly after the MTA terminated its contract to operate Long …
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By Lee Landor
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6/29/11
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If you ride or work for Long Island Bus, changes are headed your way.
Details of the contract between Nassau County and Veolia Transportation Inc., which the county selected June 10 to operate its …
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By Lee Landor
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6/22/11
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Nassau County has selected a private company to take over operation of the Long Island Bus System next year.
County Executive Edward Mangano announced last week that the RFP panel formed last year …
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By David Weingrad
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6/16/11
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To the Editor:
Following a number of significant Long Island Rail Road service disruptions and cancellations caused by Amtrak maintenance recently, I am calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to explore taking over maintenance of the rails in and out of Penn Station and the East River tunnels.
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5/16/11
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A recent rash of drivers going the wrong way on Long Island’s major highways has left government and law enforcement officials perplexed.
One thing is certain: alcohol is a major contributing …
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1/17/11
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