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SEPTA Board delays implementation of fare increase and service reductions
(SEPTA issued the following news release on February 15.) PHILADELPHIA -- The SEPTA Board has delayed the effective date of a plan that would increase fares and reduce service across the system from February 27 to March 6. The implementation date will be postponed...
Riders take a pass at hearings on NJ Transit’s fare-hike plan
(The following article by Joe Malinconico was posted on the Newark Star-Ledger website on February 16.) NEWARK, N.J. -- The turnout was so light at last night's public hearings on NJ Transit's proposed fare increase that everybody who spoke could have fit on one bus....
Rail plan would link southern New Jersey to N.Y.
(The following article by Richard Pearsall was posted on the Cherry Hill Courier-Post website on February 16.) CHERRY HILL, N.J -- NJ Transit is considering train service between Atlantic City and Newark, which could help South Jersey residents commute to New York...
LIRR ridership falls
(The following article by Joie Tyrrell was posted on the Newsday website on February 16.) NEW YORK -- Ridership on the Long Island Rail Road dropped for the third straight year last year. Overall ridership dipped slightly, while the number of rush-hour riders fell by...
Man pleads innocent in Calif. train wreck
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on February 15.) LOS ANGELES -- The man accused of causing a deadly train wreck during an aborted suicide attempt last month pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 11 counts of murder that could bring the death penalty....
Lawmakers urge refocusing security efforts
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 15.) WASHINGTON -- The government may be spending too much time and money seizing knives and other potentially dangerous items from airline passengers and too little on preventing terrorist attacks...
U.S. investigating BNSF pricing
(The Fort Worth Star-Telegram posted the following article on its website on February 16.) FORT WORTH, Texas -- The Justice Department is investigating BNSF Corp.'s pricing practices for coal shipments from the southern Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, the...
Audit questions Amtrak project costs
(The following article by Cathy Woodruff was posted on the Albany Times-Union website on February 16.) ALBANY, N.Y. -- The state Department of Transportation should refuse to pay at least $1.4 million in questionable expenses by Super Steel Schenectady for work on a...
One killed in Iowa train yard explosion
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on February 15.) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- An explosion at a rail car repair shop killed one man and injured at least three others Tuesday. Workers were using a grinder to shave excess metal off a passenger car when...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on February 14.) DOCTORS, LAW WORKERS GO UNION—A unit of more than 230 doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, N.Y., affiliated their independent Attending Physicians Association with SEIU Local 10MD recently. Meanwhile,...
