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#WeTheCommuters The latest transportation coverage from @WNYC and @Gothamist all in one place + photo essays & other special projects. FKA Transportation Nation
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In the latest story from #WeTheCommuters, Bryan Velazquez shows WNYC’s @shubasu how people who are blind are taught to use mass transit and navigate NYC. With his training and technology, we go somewhere Velazquez has never gone before: Shake Shack. https://t.co/7frh0Kwz18
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The city is calling out the union that represents much of the Staten Island Ferry crew and captains, after a number of workers called out sick Friday, causing a schedule slowdown for the second day in a row.
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The Staten Island Ferry slowdown continued for a second day.
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NYC May Start Reopening Soon. Does The MTA Have A Plan?
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“People are more cautious and they try to give others their space, but how do you social distance if there isn’t space?”
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While New York City’s stay at home order remains in place, the MTA says that riders have begun returning to the subways and buses. Most growth has been in the outerboroughs.
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“The goal will have to be, being absolutely vigilant about your mask use and putting as much distance from yourself and the next person as possible."
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This is a new subway development
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We talked to NYC Transit president @FeinbergSarah about the subway shutdown, and what it means for homeless individuals who take shelter on the trains, and essential workers commuting at late hours. https://t.co/Ce1AO1B0Wf
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Why and how the subways are closing overnight for the first time, plus a look ahead at how to keep transit safe when ridership rebounds.
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The subway system shutdown starts tonight (technically Wednesday) at 1am. Follow @s_nessen and @jangelooff who will be out reporting about this overnight — and tune in to @Wnyc tomorrow morning to hear how it went.
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How will the MTA will close its 472 stations? Chief Safety Officer Pat Warren said some have gates that will be locked, while others will have a police officer stationed outside to keep people out.
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Roughly 11,000 essential workers rely on the subway overnight.
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when is the last time you rode the subway, and where were you going??
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MTA Will End Overnight Subway Service For Duration Of Pandemic https://t.co/AZdq3kgQ3v
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The MTA will soon cease overnight subway service, an unprecedented disruption that will allow crews to disinfect trains more frequently to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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To date, 84 #MTA workers have died from #COVID19. @WNYC and @Gothamist spoke with the family and friends of two of them, and will be sharing more remembrances.
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Transit workers continue to die from the coronavirus in greater numbers than workers at any other city or state agency.
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Update on changes to the MTA's Code of Conduct: Shopping carts now banned in stations and on trains. And no one will be allowed to spend more than an hour on the platform or they’ll be asked to leave.
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On Tuesday, both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the presence of the homeless in the subways, but they offered little in the way of solutions to the problem.
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“That is disgusting, what is happening on those subway cars,” Cuomo said.
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The #MTA has rolled out its own public service campaign to remind mass transit riders to “Keep Them Covered": https://t.co/INeWYo3OdU
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On Friday, the #MTA confirmed to @Gothamist the agency will go ahead with a contentious plan to expand the agency's police force by 64%. The hiring spree comes at a moment when the MTA is teetering on the edge of financial collapse.
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The hiring spree, which was pushed through by the governor in December over fierce objections from advocates and some MTA board members, is expected to cost $249 million over four years.
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MTA To Pay $500,000 To Each Family Of Workers Killed By COVID-19
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The money is part of a “family benefit program” and would come out of the operating budget.
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The subways are only running every 30 minutes and are overcrowded. How can essential workers, who use the subway to commute, stay safe? That and more on this week's #askthemayor
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Mayor Bill de Blasio discusses the ongoing developments in battling COVID-19 in NYC.
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The MTA Has Created A “Temperature Brigade” To Make Sure Workers Don’t Have Fevers
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"By time they show fever they may have had it and been transmitting it for a week or more."
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