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New York New York The Guardian has suggested that New York City may have been the first American city with a homeless relocation program, starting in 1987. [1] As of 2017, the New York City Department of Homeless Services was spending $500,000 annually on relocation, [1] [3] making it significantly larger than other schemes across the United ...
In December 2018, an urban policy think tank proposed legalizing marijuana for non-medical uses in New York state, then collecting a tax to fund the New York City transit system. [ 117 ] [ 118 ] The same month, the MTA announced that as many as four percent of subway riders and 16 percent of bus riders each day might not be paying fares ...
In 2008, the bus operations of New York City Transit and MTA Bus Company (as well as the now former Long Island Bus division) were merged into a new regional operation, MTA Regional Bus Operations. The New York City Bus and MTA Bus brands continue to be used on all buses, but New York City Transit (NYCT), Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit ...
While some, including bus operators, claimed the flashing blue lights helped improve travel times for buses, they were controversial due to some drivers mistaking them for emergency vehicles. [126] The use of the lights also violated the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law (Article 9, Section 375 (41)). [127]
On July 30, 2013, an accident occurred at 56th Street and Boulevard East in West New York, New Jersey, in which Angelie Paredes, an 8-month-old North Bergen resident, was killed in her stroller when a full-sized [88] jitney bus belonging to the New York-based Sphinx company toppled a light pole. The driver, Idowu Daramola of Queens, was ...
WAWAYANDA - A new emergency access gate system has been built on Interstate 84 in Orange County, 10 months after a bus crashed there, killing two people. The access gate was added at county Route ...
In 1920, New York adopted the Emergency Rent Laws, which effectively charged the courts of New York State with their administration. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The rent laws were the result of a series of widespread rent strikes in New York City from 1918 to 1920 that had been sparked by a World War 1 housing shortage, and the subsequent land ...
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