Hey you learn something new every day. Today I was digging around the MTA site, and found out that they videotape their meetings and put them on the website - that’s great!
So, I watched the latest Board Meeting dated 05/28/2008 (well, most of it, it can get kinda boring).
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Connecticut DOT has I-95 pretty well covered with traffic cams, but the interface isn’t all that great.
Mobile|Traffic has their own page for navigation, which is better, I think.
So, if you were thinking of heading up to Norwalk to get something at Best Buy or whatever, you might want to check the trouble exits in [...]

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Lots of you know the secret of Track 61 at Grand Central, which houses the custom train car built for FDR so he could be transported beneath the city without exposing the public to the extent of his Polio disability.
Today’s Matt Lauer examined the mystery of Track 61 for the Today Show:

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Apparently there was some last minute politicking to bring the Congestion Pricing initiative onto the State Assembly floor for a public vote - but to no avail - according to Elizabeth Benjamin for the Daily Politics blog at The Daily News.
Mayor Bloomberg had some things to say about that.

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The New York Times City Room reports that congestion pricing has been killed by a secret vote behind closed doors in the State Assembly, and will not reach the the floor for a vote.
This effectively ends New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bid to charge $8 for cars coming into lower Manhattan during rush hour [...]

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The new Yankee Stadium Metro-North stop to go online in 2009 is posing some logistical challenges to scheduling, reports LoHud.com’s ‘Going Places’:
Left: Say hello to your new seatmates on the way home from work. They appreciate you making the extra slow loop-stop so they can share your hour-long ride home.
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Tonight at 7:30 PM (I guess they were trying to show people how late they work when we’re paying attention) the New York City Council approved the congestion pricing measure by a vote of 30-20.
The measure now goes to the state legislature, who is expected to rubber-stamp the measure.
If approved, the new tolls could be [...]

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