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Runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge at the start of the New York City Marathon in New York, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. The New York City Marathon organizers will soon have to pay a toll to cross a state bridge, just like every other commuter, if transit officials in New York have their way. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is demanding the New York Road Runners, organizers of the venerable race held the first Sunday each November, to pay roughly $750,000 for use of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Transportation officials want NYC Marathon organizers to pay $750K to cross the Verrazzano bridge

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

This photo provided by The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) shows emergency personnel at the scene of a train derailment of a New York City subway car, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. A New York City subway train derailed Thursday after colliding with another train, leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries including some who were brought to hospitals, the New York City Police Department said. (Metropolitan Transportation Authority via AP)

New York City subway train derails in collision with another train, injuring more than 20 people

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The sun sets behind the New York skyline, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, as seen from Calvary Cemetery. New York will move forward with its first-in-the-nation plan to charge drivers extra in tolls to enter the core of New York City, part of an effort to reduce congestion, improve air quality and raise funds for the city's public transit system. The program is expected to begin in spring of 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

New York City drivers will pay extra tolls as part of the effort to reduce congestion

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In this April 26, 2017, photo a Twitter app icon is shown on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

NYC transit agency ends Twitter alerts, says it’s unreliable

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A video surveillance camera hangs from the ceiling above a subway platform, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. All subway cars in New York will soon be equipped with security cameras in an effort to keep riders safe and solve crimes happening in train stations, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday, Sept. 20. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit received about $5.5 million in state and federal funding for purchasing and installing cameras on about 6,355 subway cars. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Surveillance cameras to be installed on all New York City subway cars

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this file photo, a woman uses protective gloves as she looks at her phone wrapped in a plastic bag while riding a New York City subway train, Monday, March 9, 2020. New York City's subway system will be fully wired for cellphone and Wi-Fi service within about 10 years under a plan approved by transit officials in July 2022. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Cellphone, Wi-Fi service expanding across NYC subway system

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In this photo from social media video, passengers run from a subway car in a station in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. A gunman filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke and shot multiple people Tuesday, leaving wounded commuters bleeding on a Brooklyn platform as others ran screaming, authorities said. Police were still searching for the suspect. (Will B Wylde via AP)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams pledges police ‘omnipresence’ after subway shooting

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

MTA brings celebrity voices to NYC transit announcements

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Faces of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees who died of COVID-19 are displayed at Fulton Street station, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in the Manhattan borough of New York. The MTA is honoring its 136 employees who have died from the virus since the pandemic began with a digital memorial at 107 subway stations. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Video tribute honors 136 transit employees lost to COVID-19

By KAREN MATTHEWS and DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

A bus in New York City which careened off a road in the Bronx neighborhood of New York is left dangling from an overpass Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, after a crash late Thursday that left the driver in serious condition, police said. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Bus driver in dramatic bridge plunge says it ‘just took off’

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

FILE — In this Nov.18, 2020, file photo, commuters wear masks stepping on and off a subway car, in New York. New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved a budget, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, that doesn't include threatened service cuts and fare hikes, though officials say those options remain a possibility. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

MTA OKs budget absent service cuts and fare hikes, for now

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In this photo taken March 12, 2015, passengers wait on the platform before boarding a train at the U Street Metro Station in Washington. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Tuesday, May 10, 2016, he seriously considered ordering a shutdown of the entire Washington Metro subway system last week and may still do that if local officials don't follow a Transportation Department safety directive. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Transit agencies need black Sharpies — ASAP

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

5 current and former MTA workers charged with overtime fraud

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Cash-strapped MTA details service cuts, fare and toll hikes

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Bus Operator, Cathy Davis-Baker, gets a Covid test as part of an initiative by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to test its workers Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, at the Grand Avenue Bus Depot in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New York to increase testing of public transit workers

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Iconic NYC subway map now appearing live on a phone near you

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

MTA hoping for federal dollars to forestall service cuts

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

A commuter, left, rides the subway without a face mask in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced a new public service campaign to encourage mask usage as well as a new $50 fine policy for those who refuse to wear face coverings on subways, buses and commuter railroads. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NYC tries $50 fines to get scofflaws to don masks on subway

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 7, 2020, file photo, some people wear masks while using the New York City subway system during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. New York's mass transit agency wants Apple to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks, as it seeks to guard against the spread of COVID-19 in buses and subways. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

MTA asks Apple’s help to solve iPhone mask issues

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

Cuts, fare hikes, gas tax floated as MTA faces budget hole

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press