For only $7.2 Billion you too can have your very own tunnel-making machine, which should insure your evil underground Gotham lair is safe from even the most persistent superhero do-gooder. Barring complete insolvency of MTA (not out of the realm of possibility), the tunnel from 63d St to Grand Central should be finished around 2015.

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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). It started with everyone congratulating [...]

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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 [...]

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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. “The station, which will [...]

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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 [...]

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Today’s final opening day at the current Yankee Stadium was postponed due to rain, and will be played tomorrow night at 7:05 PM, weather permitting (Forecastfox is showing a thundercloud for PM tomorrow as I speak). In more uplifting Yankee’s news, all 3 Metro-North lines will stop at Yankee Stadium next year! LodHud.com reports that [...]

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