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...live four blocks from the J and Z elevated lines in Queens. When people come to visit me from the suburbs or areas without mass-transit systems, I wonder what they think of the el rattling by my family’s home. But I’m not at all embarrassed by the proximity of my home to the these behemoths. After all, an externality is negative only for bystanders whose well-being is impacted negatively. After having spent last summer at Harvard, the past several weeks back home have helped me to rediscover just how much I love...
...smallpox virus, monkeypox has hitherto been endemic only in Africa. So it came as little surprise when health authorities traced the outbreak to 28 prairie dogs in Milwaukee, Wis., destined to become household pets, that had come into contact with an infected giant Gambian pouched rat while in transit with a distributor. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announced an embargo on the importation of all rodents from Africa and a ban on the sale and transfer of pet prairie dogs within...
Consequently, the proposed move by the MBTA is illogical, even if purely for administrative reasons. The MBTA—the government agency that operates the Boston area mass transit system, including the subway, the trolleys, the buses and the commuter railroad—is a perennial money-loser. Fares are deliberately set below the break-even point in order to keep public transportation affordable for Boston’s poorest citizens; state tax revenues help keep the agency afloat. And with the state government facing a huge budget crisis, and the MBTA contemplating another fare hike, it is sheer folly...
...What that means is, even if Harvard were to buy the land and buy [railyard owner] CSX’s lease, we would still have the ability to require Harvard to accommodate the commonwealth to provide for mass transit needs,” he said...
...city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) will be raising subway and bus fare from $1.50 to $2. But last Wednesday, New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi charged that MTA officials kept double books in order to justify the hike—raising commuter rail rates by around 25 percent, MTA bridge tolls by 50 cents and bus and subway fares by 33 percent. Hevesi said that $512 million in surplus was moved by MTA into the revenue column of later years. Another audit of NYC Transit found $850 million was mislabeled as operating expenses. These numbers are relatively...