Dear NYC MTA: Pull Out the Credit Card

Gotham Gazette looks at a recent proposal by a number of council members and the Straphangers Campaign to take money from the capital budget – used for things like maintaining and expanding the system’s infrastructure – and use it for operating expenses, such as salaries and fuel. Good idea or slippery slope?

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Public transport FAIL; tricycle faster than city's worst bus

Yes, bus rider -- you were just passed by a little kid on a tricycle. The dishonor roll was led by the sluggish crosstown M42, which won the Straphanger Campaign's "Pokey" award for plodding along 42nd Street at a hair-pulling average speed of 3.7 mph.

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New York Subway Fail to Make the Grade

New York State Communist Party comments on the current state of New York City subways and a recent report by the Straphangers Campaign..

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WINNER TAKES ALLAH: MTA'S ISLAM AD FUROR

Elected officials and straphangers called on the MTA yesterday to pull the Islamic subway-ad campaign being promoted by a controversial Brooklyn imam whom federal officials have linked to acts of terrorism. The push to promote Islam on the rails this September, in a $48,000 ad campaign sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America, was. .

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N.Y. Straphangers To Release Annual Subway Ratings

New Yorkers will find out if their train line "made the grade" as the Straphanger's Campaign releases it's annual subway report card on Monday.

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