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Andrew Yang is selling himself as an ideas man.
But more than once now on the trail he’s offered up notions that landed with a deafening thud.
Transportation watchers we talked to said arguments against mayoral control of the city trains have only become more pronounced since the 2017 “Summer of Hell.” The idea was championed by Council Speaker Corey Johnson now running for city comptroller who was plotting his own mayoral run at the time.
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New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority will resume 24-hour service on May 17 to preempt the lifting of curfews and reopening of businesses and office space. | Frank Franklin II/AP Photo
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut ending most restrictions on May 19
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New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are lifting most Covid-19-related restrictions on May 19, signaling a denouement for some of the country’s strictest lockdown orders and social distancing protocols imposed during the pandemic.
The unified approach announced separately on Monday by the three governors who had previously appeared together (albeit virtually) at Covid-era news conferences comes on the heels of a public spat between New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The two Democrats‘ mutual antipathy has deepened as Cuomo faces calls to resign amid two scandals and de Blasio wraps up his second term.
Subway Commuters Come Together to Tell an Anti-masker to Shut Up
On 5/3/21 at 1:23 PM EDT
As mask-wearing continues to be a normal part of daily life well over a year after the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, much of society has adjusted to the practice.
However, there remains a large outlier of people who fight back against wearing a mask for a variety of reasons. Hundreds of videos have surfaced of anti-maskers making scenes in restaurants, grocery stores, businesses and, in this case, on public transport as they refuse to adhere to private, local or federal rules.
In a recent video from Sunday, a woman without a mask was caught creating a nuisance on Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The 32-second long clip was tweeted by handle @Tim Tweeted who captioned the video Anti-masker on LIRR gets a unison SHUT UP shouted at her.
Itâs starting to feel as commonplace as handwashing: To protect against COVID, people across the globe are skipping trains and buses. Instead, theyâre part of the great car comeback thatâs sending vehicle sales soaring and fueling a demand surge for oil and metals.
Julie Murataj is a reluctant part of the shift. Two of her three kids are now getting dropped off at school instead of taking public transit. Then she drives her Volvo SUV to work, where she helps London schoolchildren cross the road by halting traffic with a bright, red and yellow stop sign that Brits call a âlollipop.â Itâs a front-row seat to the worldâs changing travel habits.