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Stalling current Island needs is the huge funding crisis at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs the New York City subway and bus system, among other operations. It's a costly roadblock that won't budge soon. There is a $15-billion shortfall in the MTA's proposed five-year, $32-billion capital budget, which covers maintenance, improvements and expansion of the regional network. "We have a very large hole in our existing capital program," stressed Peter Cafiero, chief of operations planning at the MTA's New York City Transit division. He was responding at a City Council hearing to a question by Councilwoman Debi Rose, D-North Shore, about the potential to ease traffic congestion by creating a bus rapid transit (BRT) route here.

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Temperatures hovered just above zero Monday as an extreme cold front paralyzed the city and may have led to the death of a man found on the Coney Island boardwalk. The arctic temps, which approached but did not eclipse a record low for the city in the overnight hours, likely contributed to the man’s demise, police sources said. Bai-Ping Wen, 77, was found face up on the Coney Island boardwalk near its famous carousel about 7 a.m., when the mercury topped off around the 5-degree mark, the sources said. Family members confirmed Wen’s identity and told the Daily News he suffered from diabetes. Wen lived in Coney Island for 15 years, the family said.

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He’s driven a bus driver five days a week, for at least eight hours a day, for approximately 30 years. According to union officials, de Jesus had a good record, despite having to navigate some of the busiest streets and most densely populated neighborhoods in the country. Then on Friday, de Jesus had an accident. After driving some 450,000 miles during his career, he hit a pedestrian. Not on purpose. Not because he was texting or speeding or drinking. He was making a left turn and accidentally struck and injured a 15-year-old girl. He didn’t see her walking across the street, he told police. He looked but didn’t see the girl while turning the 40-foot-long behemoth.

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If bedbugs boarded a bus in Brooklyn on Monday morning, it appears they also exited. A bus was taken out of service after a rider spotted what were believed to be bedbugs crawling on another passenger who was boarding the B44, which runs between Sheepshead Bay and Williamsburg, according to an MTA spokesman. “Customers all ran off the bus,” a transit source said. No insects were found on board, however, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz. The bus was taken out of service so it could be “treated” by the MTA’s pest control contractor. Ortiz couldn’t say where along the route the bus was taken out of service.
 
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I would like to take user Real Transit seriously but since every single post this user has made have been behind multiple proxies.  Now who the hell would do that?  Since you have to hide I really don't give a shit what you have to say.  Start your own community and run it 7+ years successfully and then come and talk to me.  But I doubt that will ever happen so I'm going to ban user Real Transit and all the proxy addresses associated with it so me and the rest of the community never have to read any garbage from that fake account again.  Carry on with the discussion guys.

I think the size is just right.  I am over six feet tall and it feels comfortable in my hands.  I do think that it shouldn't get any larger than it is.

I've been using the Galaxy Note 3 for a little over a month now and I got to say that this is the best phone that I ever had to pleasure to use.  I've never been so happy with a smartphone before and I've had many.  Anyone else on here using a GN3?  What do you think about it?

Give rep when it's due people!

 

Welcome to the student transportation forum.  This forum was created from a request. The idea received positive support from the forum staff and members so here it is.

I love my iPhone 5 and would recommend it to anyone, but rumors are saying that due up soon are the iPhone 5S as well as a cheaper version that will apparently be called the 5C. There isn't supposed to be much of a difference between the 5 and 5C/S except a better chip, possible NFC, a better camera and a few other rumored features, so if you just want the 5 go ahead and get it, or better yet wait for the 5S to come out (should be next month), the 5's pricetag will go down by about $100.

 

I just read there was a 6 right around the corner.  I don't know about iPhones though.

 

That or the HTC One is interesting at the moment.

My contract is up.  What phone is hot right now I've been out of the smartphone loop for a while.

(also, as a word of advice, try not to revive threads more than a couple months old. You had something to contribute here, but just a heads up.)

 

I moved his post here because this is where it belongs.  This thread is now pinned and open for posting.

The OP can take his time to fill the requests, they have lives. It isn't fair to lock their threads simply because they fell behind.

 

Topics that look like they were completely abandoned will get locked and unpinned.  Some go back to the summer of 2012.

He's been banned for good. Forget about him and just continue with the discussion please.

Please just ignore and continue with the topic people.

 

 

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I'm relaying a message from "Green Eggs n' Pelham" to let users know that he is unable to access his account on this forum. Therefore to further receive updates from him on his NYCTA and BART project, please visit the Auran Forums and search for "NYCTA Pics" and "BART" (there may be some that I'm missing). He is sorry for the inconvenience...

 

 

Tell him to email me at info at nyctransitforums.com.

Renamed this thread from "Fast Track: Several Manhattan Subway Lines To Be Shutdown Overnights" to "FASTRACK Subway Repairs Thread" It's an official thread now.

 

As you were...

Yes, I do.

I'd say they improved it with the Super AMOLED Plus display. It's not perfect in direct sunlight but I can definitely see more than I did with my old phone. It's pretty good.

I finally got around to dumping my EVO 4G and got me the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (yes that's the name of it). Overall I am totally satisfied with this device and it's gorgeous 4.52" Super AMOLED Plus display compared to the washed out looking LCD of the EVO 4G (I also think the qHD Pentile displays on the newer devices looked washed out too). There's a improvement with battery life over the EVO 4G which was a battery draining monster.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdPQp6Jcdk

Hey I'm going to need something similar to the style below:

 

 

I'll post details in a fewskies.

Damn, that some fast internet. How much do you pay monthly for the phone service?

 

Sprint's Everything Data Plan. $69.99+