Matthew Schuerman

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New York Senate Democrats have introduced their bill to rescue the MTA, and they're expected to vote on it Tuesday. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports.

REPORTER: Senate leaders estimate the bill raises 1-point-76 billion dollars a year through a soup bowl of taxes, fees, and a dollar ...

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State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he won't block the state Senate's plan to bail out the MTA. The Senate's version has come under intense criticism because it adds a dollar surcharge on cab rides in the region, and devotes half of that money to ...

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The latest state Senate plan to save the MTA is facing lot of criticism. And the car rental companies haven't even begun to weigh in. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports.

REPORTER: Governor Paterson tacked on an extra percentage point to the car rental tax to help balance ...

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Mayor Bloomberg says he doesn't like the State Senate's latest plan to bail out the MTA. He says he's particularly upset by a $1 cab ride surcharge, that would be equally split between mass transit, and road and bridge improvements for Long Island and Upstate ...

The uproar over the MTA's funding shortfall has spread to the Internet. The Facebook group, 'One Million People Against the NYC MTA Fare Hike' was launched about one month ago. Actor Amir Darvish says he and four friends decided ...

New York, NY —

The uproar over the MTA's funding shortfall has spread to the Internet. The Facebook group, "One Million People Against the MTA Fare Hike" was launched about one month ago. Actor Amir Darvish says he and four friends decided to create the cyber-group one night while ...

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Officials from the Working Families Party and the labor unions that come under its umbrella held a rally today for an MTA rescue plan. They plan to lobby state lawmakers to approve more money for the transportation authority and head off a fare increase and ...

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Senate Democrats are pushing a new plan to increase oversight of the MTA as well as its funding. Majority Leader Malcolm Smith says the public deserves to know where its money is going.

SMITH: We inherited an MTA that has been dysfunctional, if you will, for ...

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Democratic leaders of the New York State Senate have come up with a new rescue plan for the MTA that does not rely on any new bridge tolls. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports.

REPORTER: The latest version includes a payroll tax, a dollar-a-ride surcharge on cab rides, ...

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Critics say the latest plan to bail out the MTA sounds too much like the old one. The Ravitch Commission has revised its proposal to put tolls on free bridges over the East and Harlem Rivers, saying trips for medical reasons or deliveries would be ...

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For years, the Port Authority has been trying to get a new World Trade Center complex built quickly. Now, it's slowing down the pace of building the office towers. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman has more.

REPORTER: One of the Port Authority's consultants determined there won't be enough ...

The chiefs of economic development for the city and the state spoke before construction industry executives this morning, trying to reassure them that all was well even in these hard times.

New York Times reporter Charles Bagli, ...

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HOST: Mayor Bloomberg last week laid out a plan to spend $260 million in transportation money from the federal stimulus bill. It’ll go to the Brooklyn Bridge, the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and new sidewalk furniture in Bedford Stuyvesant – sort of. WNYC’s Matthew Schuerman ...

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The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the transit system over a secret court that tries people who allegedly break rules in the subways. The lead counsel in the case, Christopher Dunn, says the Transit Adjudication Bureau holds more than 22,000 hearings a year ...

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After calling the plan for new bridge tolls "dead" last week, Governor Paterson says it's time to start working on another rescue plan for the MTA. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports that the governor's beginning to look across the aisle.

REPORTER: With Democrats in the state Senate ...

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More than 200 people marched, chanted and sang their way through the streets of Lower Manhattan this afternoon, protesting the government's bailout of banks. They stopped in front of three of buildings occupied by AIG's buildings and other buildings occupied by banks and demanded that ...

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Governor Paterson is threatening to force state legislators to approve a plan to avert the MTA fare hikes scheduled to go into effect at the end of May. But WNYC's Matthew Schuerman reports he isn't giving them a firm deadline.

REPORTER: Addressing business leaders in Manhattan, ...