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1 month ago | 
qchron.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
This article was originally published on May 27 at 2:53 p.m. EDT by THE CITY. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from cutting funding from the MTA and New York state over their repeated refusals to shut down congestion pricing.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
kion546.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
Longtime San Francisco street vendors open Salvadoran restaurant in Tenderloin SAN FRANCISCO, California (KPIX) — For Estrella Gonzalez and her mother, Maria del Carmen Flores, the opening of their restaurant in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood is the realization of a long-held dream.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
kion546.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
Immigrant students in San Francisco overcoming barriers to higher education SAN FRANCISCO, California (KPIX) — In the heart of the San Francisco Mission District, a group of immigrant students is taking steps toward higher education, despite the challenges they face because of their status. Allison Romero, a student at Thurgood Marshall High School in San Francisco, fled El Salvador two years ago to escape the violence that gripped her community.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
brownstoner.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
This article was originally published on September 25 at 12:23 p.m. EDT by THE CITY Want more reporting from THE CITY? Sign up for Scoop, our free weekday newsletter, to have our latest news delivered right to your inbox. The MTA board on Wednesday approved a $68.4 billion blueprint for big-ticket upgrades in the transit agency’s new five-year capital program — even as billions of dollars in funding remain unaccounted for in the current plan and the next one.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
brownstoner.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
This article was originally published on September 18 11:15 a.m. EDT by THE CITY Want more reporting from THE CITY? Sign up for Scoop, our free weekday newsletter, to have our latest news delivered right to your inbox. The MTA on Wednesday unveiled a record $68.4 billion capital improvement program designed to keep the teetering transit system on track — even as funding for nearly half the five-year plan is no sure thing.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
qchron.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez |Ashley Borja
This article was originally published on August 14 at 5:00 a.m. EDT by THE CITY. The MTA has doubled the ranks of private security guards posted near subway station emergency exits that officials call the “superhighway of fare evasion.”Budget documents show that the MTA expects to spend more than $35 million through next year on increasing to 1,000 the number of unarmed security guards whose mere presence at the gates is intended to slow the stream of fare-beaters who use them as free entrances.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
brownstoner.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
This article was originally published on July 26 at 5 a.m. EDT by THE CITY Trees and branches that tumble onto the subway tracks have already delayed nearly 800 trains this year, MTA data shows — far more than in all of 2023. The impact has been felt most sharply along the Brighton Line, the stretch of open-air tracks south of Prospect Park where B and Q trains run beneath tree-covered Brooklyn backyards.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
truthdig.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez |Ella Napack
A years-in-the-making plan to toll motorists driving into the most congested parts of Manhattan as a way to ease traffic and raise billions for transit upgrades has stalled again — less than a month before its planned launch. Gov.
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May 16, 2024 | 
qchron.com | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
This article was originally published on May 9 5:15 p.m. EDT by THE CITYWhen Albany lawmakers last month passed “Sammy’s Law” — allowing the city to lower the speed limit to 20 mph on some roads — safe-streets advocates celebrated a victory that was years in the making. Named for 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein, who was fatally struck by a van in October 2012 while retrieving a ball in Brooklyn, the measure signed into law last Thursday by Gov.
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May 6, 2024 | 
ca.bfn.today | Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |José Martínez
By Jose Martinez May 5, 2024 / 11:14 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco Treasure Island hosts its first Cinco de Mayo celebration Treasure Island hosts its first Cinco de Mayo celebration 02:47 SAN FRANCISCO -- The festive tunes of Mexican mariachi filled the air at Gold Bar Distillery, marking the first-ever Cinco de Mayo celebration in Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Elliott Gillespie, president of Gold Bar Distillery, was excited. "A lot of our guests asked us to do it.
