The relationship between MTA and photographers officially came to an outrageous head this weekend when two television reporters from WFSB were arrested for being in an ‘employees-only’ area of the New Haven Train station by MTA police.
According to Dan Brucker, MTA spokesman, MTA police asked him how to proceed when they noticed the crew shooting [...]

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Update: In answer to some emails, the video was created with a Canon HG10 HD Digital Camcorder, a Canon SD870IS for the stills, edited with Pinnacle Studio 11 on Windows Vista Ultimate. A Shure SM57 Microphone was used for the voiceover narration, connected to the PC via Creative Labs X-Fi .

The embedded version [...]

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You would figure that, running a Metro-North blog, I would be on top of a story about the new M-8 car prototype being unveiled at Union station today, but truth be told I had NO CLUE.
And as far as I can tell, not many other news organizations knew either.
I looked on Governor Rell’s site - [...]

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Metro-North is encouraging you to ditch work early Friday and get the hell out of Dodge to beat the Memorial Day rush this weekend.
Also please remember that on Memorial Day (Monday, May 26) Metro-North will operate a Holiday Schedule.
Use the MTA Schedule Form for accurate Friday and Monday changes!!
From MTA:
To help get your Memorial Day [...]

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Here is the video where Jodi Rell was in earshot of her rail yard project going well overbudget lonngg before she said she was aware of it:

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Sometimes wall-to-wall train advertising is welcome, as is the case with Westin’s hotel’s new makeover of the New Haven Line Bar Car into a Polynesian Tiki Bar theme. The car previously had all the sex appeal of a 1970’s public school cafeteria. AMNY Subway Tracker has the details.
Personally, I would prefer that MTA do [...]

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Last month we reported on a fuel spill at the Croton-On-Hudson Metro-North facility (near the station). Over 17,000 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled into the ground on March 29, which MTA hired contractors to come in and clean up.
Today crotonblog.com (the source of the original story and above photo), is reporting that the Westchester [...]

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