Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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• MTA: Storm plans under way; Rockaway service back May 30

  covers to seal off subway entry points during major storms like superstorm Sandy. At a news conference at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 's South Ferry station -- one of the most severely damaged by the October storm -- agency interim executive   Read more »

• Brentwood man killed when train struck car

  Transportation Authority officials on Saturday said they were still investigating a train accident that killed a driver in his car on the tracks near the Brentwood station Friday.The driver was identified as Adolfo Munoz, 63, of Brentwood. Munoz was driving   Read more »

• Report faults MTA over lax structure inspections

  system -- in some cases going decades without checking on them, a new report said.The report from the office of Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General Barry Kluger said steel supports on the elevated J subway line, truss bridges, and abandoned   Read more »

• Editorial: Yet another episode of Nassau financial follies

  about fast-money fixes in Nassau County: 17 years after then-Executive Thomas Gulotta did a deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to raise fast cash, the mess is still costing taxpayers. Now the county has to come up with $26 million, and the   Read more »

• NYPD: Suspicious package probe at Grand Central subway platform

  are investigating a suspicious package found Monday on a subway platform serving Grand Central Terminal, the NYPD and Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.The package was reported in a 911 call at 9:02 a.m.It is not inside the terminal building, but   Read more »

Around the web

• Fitch Rates Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY) Revs 'A'; Outlook Stable

  YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'A' rating to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York's (MTA) approximately $500 million transportation revenue bonds, series 2013C and approximately $350 million transportation revenue bonds, 5/22/13 from Business Wire Read more »

• Boston Amtrak service returns to normal

  photos of the crash Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates Metro-North, said there were no major problems or delays reported. "Trains are running normally," he said. "We're back at full strength, a full schedule   from Boston Channel.com Read more »

• NTSB: Fractured rail was cause or consequence of train accident

  should return to their normal Metro-North Railroad routine by mid-week, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Riders met the news with mixed emotions after the collision and derailment last week that injured 70 and left rail service into   from FindLaw: Attorney Blog Read more »

• LA Metro Wins Award for Sustainable Communities Planning Program

  May 2, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) earned the 2013 Southern California Association of Governments' President's Award of Excellence for its Countywide Sustainability Planning Policy. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan   from Streetsblog Read more »

• Implore President Obama to Enforce the Civil Rights Act

  are charging the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority with violating the civil rights of a half-million bus riders, 75 percent of them black or Latino, by cutting 1 million hours of bus service and raising monthly bus passes to $72 while giving   from The Nation Read more »