Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff is staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, a New York City-based public transport advocacy group that focuses primarily on subway and bus services run by New York City Transit. At the same time, Russianoff has also served as a government reform advocate for NYPIRG...
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It's about time that riders here enjoyed the same timely arrival and delay information that systems around the world have had for years.
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The only pledge I'd believe is, if either one or both of them said, 'I'm going to be mayor in 2007 and, if the MTA has a deficit, I'll fill it with city money,'
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Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways. The state runs them.
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Arbitration - in which the rank and file will have no vote - is a recipe for potential unrest for years to come.
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A rash of broken machines is not expected. The board is doing a better job of training poll watchers and they're maintaining the machines better.
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This is a necessary consequence of maintaining the system.
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Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.
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He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.
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Before the strike, there was considerable sympathy for the workers, but once the strike began, that clearly changed. The real winners are neither labor or management but the public that desperately wanted their subways and buses back.
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I'm worried about the politicians trying to use the money for things that make them look good and still leave the riders holding the bag.
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They know where the people are. But what are they doing for the people they're handing the literature to?
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If it works ... that would be great, but it should be subject to rigorous, tough testing.
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I don't think they do it lightly. I don't think someone is saying, 'How can we make everybody's day more miserable?' They are plagued by the fact the system, in some places, hasn't been touched in decades. ... This is why you need to build a Second Avenue subway.
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I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway. That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from $100 million a year to $75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants.