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TVs on the Subway… for $104/Month
The perennially cash-strapped MTA has a brilliant new “revenue stream” in the works: turning 10-inch video screens in the newest R160 trains into TVs, complete with commercial breaks. The agency is...
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Dear Andy, the M.T.A. Is Not Your Piggy Bank
A group of 30 transit advocates, environmentalists, planners and labor leaders sent Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo a letter [PDF] this morning with a simple request: Don’t allow, or, god forbid,...
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Walder Resigning as M.T.A. Chief
Jay Walder has announced that he is stepping down as head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in October. “I want to thank Governor Cuomo and former Governor Paterson for the honor of serving...
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Wonks Wistful for Walder
I hear the weather's lovely in Hong Kong this time of year. (Getty) With Jay Walder hopping the express to Hong Kong this October, the city’s transit junkies are stunned and saddened by the loss of one...
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Jay Walder in Hong Kong: If He Thought the Upper West Side Was Pricey…
It looks pretty at night, at least. Last year, The Observer reported that relatively new (he was nine months in) M.T.A. chief Jay Walder and his wife had bought on the Upper West Side near five subway...
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Jay Walder Vigintuples His Salary in Hong Kong
Ask my replacement. (MTA/Flickr) In a new security filing, MTR Corporation reveals it will pay its new CEO $7.2 million when he starts in November, according to Bloomberg News. And to think people...
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Will Conductor Cuomo Put the M.T.A. On Track?
All aboard? (wikispaces.com) Transportation wonks have a habit of talking about Jay Walder, the outgoing head of the M.T.A., in messianic terms, as though he were the only man capable of fixing the...
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Replacing Walder at the M.T.A. 'Puts the Governor On the Hook'
Matt Chaban notes that no matter who Governor Cuomo picks to replace Jay Walder as head of the M.T.A., there will invariably be a downside for the new governor. Basically, he’ll own the M.T.A. Chaban:...
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Governor Cuomo’s Congestion Pricing U-Turn
Pay up! (<a href="http://www.mcorriss.com/NYC.html">mcorriss.com</a>) Transit wonks are hoping Governor Andrew Cuomo might still be their secret savior, and it’s starting to look like...
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If I Were Driving This Train: One N Rider’s Platform for Fixing the M.T.A.
This is fixable. The first thing on my platform is that the next M.T.A. chief need not be a train buff. He or she—or me specifically, since I’m hereby throwing my name out there—has to appreciate the...
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Governor Cuomo Could Care Less About the M.T.A. and the Port Authority
Chris Ward chilling with another governor. (<a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/breaking/spin-cycle-1.812042/more-housecleaning-for-cuomo-1.3096773">Newsday</a>) Just not much less...
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The Visionary and the Bean Counter: Can Joe Lhota Get the M.T.A. on the Right...
Slow down. (Getty) When Jay Walder resigned from the M.T.A. earlier this year, the transportation community was mortified. Here was their messiah leaving for Hong Kong, his work barely begun. Transit...
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First Day in Hong Kong, Jay Walder Pats Himself on the Back for M.T.A Leadership
Walder works the crowd. (MTR) Tuesday was Jay Walder’s first day on the million-dollar job in Honk Kong, and while the focus was on fair hikes there in his first press conference, the former M.T.A...
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Mayor Bloomberg Gives Up on Fixing the M.T.A.
Don't mind me. (Business Insider) Mayor Bloomberg was asked about Jay Walder’s glum assessment of the M.T.A. yesterday. He agreed with the ousted transit chief and then proceeded to throw up his hands,...
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Last Swipe for Former MTA Chief Jay Walder’s $1.6 M. Condo
Mr. Walder's conveniently located living room You can definitely say one thing about unit 9BC at 65 West 95th Street—it’s conveniently located. Near (five!) train lines and “just steps from Central...
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