The American Rescue Plan currently making its way through Congress contains over $500 billion of aid to state and local governments. A number of analysts and commentators have questioned the need for this much additional aid. While the economic downturn did take a toll on state and local revenue collections, that revenue decline has largely recovered on average with some
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While MTA New York City Transit’s (NYCT) overnight shutdown has not been canceled, it will be cut in half.
The move is effective Feb. 22.
Millions of New Yorkers and others interested in the transit scene were shocked when the iconic all-night service on the New York subways came to an end on May 6 last year, due to the COVID-19 virus.
Although the trains are still running through the night so they are positioned for cleaning, which is required to fight the virus and to move employees around the system, riders have not been allowed on board between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. That ban on non-employees will be reduced to two hours, between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.
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Subway riders and transit workers in major cities are being exposed to levels of air pollution that could increase the risk of heart and lung problems, according to a new study from New York University.
Researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine said air quality readings, in particular on the PATH rail system linking New York and New Jersey and New York City s subway system, raise serious health concerns and warrant further investigation.
The research, published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, looked at the air quality of transit systems across the Northeast, including subways in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, during morning and evening rush hours. It found that air quality was lowest on platforms and improved somewhat on air-conditioned trains.