Saturday, July 1, 2017
New York commuters’ ‘summer of hell’
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New York (CNN)New York's commuter rail lines, subways and buses carry about 9 million riders every day. Six million of those souls cram into the subway system's vast underground maze each day.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, besieged by complaints about faltering service and infrastructure problems, sounded the alarm on North America's largest transportation network on Thursday -- declaring a state of emergency at the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).
As part of the disaster declaration, Cuomo committed $1 billion to the MTA capital plan during a speech at the MTA Genius Competition, which was organized to foster new ideas to fix the subways.
"It's going to be like that movie 'Planes,Trains & Automobiles' and we're preparing for what we call a 'Summer of Hell,'" Cuomo said, referring to the 1987 movie about a simple trip home becoming a slapstick ordeal.
The $1 billion will be in addition to agency's $15 billion operating budget for the 6,000 subway cars and 5,700 buses the MTA uses now. The governor did not specify where the funds would come from.
Cuomo is giving MTA leaders 30 days to come up with a game plan, and they have their work cut out for them with more than 700 subway cars older than their 40-year expiration date.
The MTA is run by the state, not the city government, and critics say the governor is a big part of the problem.
"The governor has stopped ignoring the problem, which is a vital first step. Now he needs to produce a credible plan to fix the subway, and to put together the billions of dollars we will need to make it happen," John Raskin, executive director of The Riders Alliance, said in a statement.
The Riders Alliance is a grassroots group of New Yorkers who have been advocating infrastructure improvements for years. Raskin says the public transportation system has been a low priority of the government and that's why the city's transit system is in decay.
Here is a sampling of recent transit mayhem:
Off the rails, then off to court
A subway derailment in Harlem Tuesday morning injured 39 and brought the subway to a grinding halt for the day.
One injured rider filed a $5 million lawsuit against MTA.
"[I had] passed out for a second," said Sheena Tucker at a news conference at her attorney's office Thursday afternoon.
She also said that after she'd "vomited," "choked" and had been "stepped on" at the scene of the derailment in a tunnel above 125th Street on Tuesday, her "side still hurts" and she's "just in a lot of pain" still, CNN affiliate WPIX 11 reported.
Tucker's lawsuit is sending a clear message to the MTA, according to her lawyer Sanford Rubenstein.
"MTA -- fix the trains," Rubenstein, said.
Stranded underground
If they're not sliding off the tracks, subway cars -- some with equipment nearly 80 years old, according to Gov. Cuomo -- will stop without warning deep in the dark tunnels.
In early June, a packed subway train with a broken air conditioning system was stranded stopped in a tunnel in Lower Manhattan for nearly an hour, CNN-affiliate WABC reported. After finally rolling up to a platform, some desperate riders tried to claw their way out of the cars gasping for air.
It got so hot on the train that a passenger was able to scrawl, "I will survive," on the humidity-covered train doors.
MTA authorities attributed the problem to power failure and launched an investigation into the incident.
Tunnel of misery
The city subways are not alone in their misery. Many train lines intersect at midtown Manhattan's Penn Station, which each day handles about 600,000 commuters who use the MTA, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit services.
Those government subsidized transportation companies are also facing the realities of neglected transit systems. Amtrak, which runs much of Penn Station, recently announced emergency repairs of decaying tracks and train switches that will cut the number of operating trains by about 20 percent during peak travel times.
So when Amtrak struggles with, say, a power failure, it doesn't just affect their own trains, but also those of New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Railroad.
On Thursday, LIRR commuters faced delays and cancellations all day after a train lost power in a tunnel to Penn Station because of Amtrak's third-rail problem.
A train with 500 people on board became stuck in the tunnel because of power issues on the electrified third rail, which is maintained by Amtrak. The LIRR said on Twitter that the passengers were evacuated onto a rescue train nearly two hours later.
Seventeen trains were canceled or rerouted, and trains traveling into Penn Station were delayed an average of 20 to 25 minutes as a result, CNN-affiliate WABC reported.
One commuter in the Jamaica section of Queens was among those who felt the effects. She tweeted during her trek:
"Dangerous insanity at Jamaica."
In New York, riders resort to MTA buses when the underground transportation fails them. But the buses aren't without their own issues.
A runaway MTA bus rolled backward at least three blocks and crashed into a church last Wednesday, leaving a man hospitalized and damaging several cars in its path in Brooklyn, CNN affiliate CBS reported.
The MTA suspended the bus driver and launched an investigation into the incident. Government plans might be in order to begin to fix the vast system, but for commuters is a matter of wait-and-see.
"Subway riders are going to evaluate the government's performance based on our day to day commute," Raskin of The Riders Alliance told CNN.
"It absolutely can get worse."
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Callan: The problem with Mika and Joe’s Trump allegation
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(CNN)As most Americans begin a particularly lengthy Fourth of July holiday weekend, television screens, and virtually all the media are focused on the burning questions: "Did Mika really have a face-lift?" and "Did Trump really tweet that?"
Normally we could brush these questions aside as no more important than, "Will she say yes to the dress?" a reality-show favorite of my normally sane, bright and professional daughters.
In Mika Brzezinski's case, however,the answer is being seriously discussed as possibly having a bearing on whether the President of the United States has committed an act of possible criminal blackmail and/or extortion directed against two well-known cable news broadcast journalists.
The answer to both questions is likely to be no, but like all legal answers, there is a bit of nuance attached to the "no."
In a Washington Post op-ed Friday, while vigorously defending Brzezinski, his co-host and fiance, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough let it slip that she "did have a little skin under her chin tweaked, but this was hardly a state secret. Her mother suggested she do so, and all those around her were aware of this mundane fact."
For the record, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons defines a "face-lift" or "rhytidectomy" as a "surgical procedure that improves visible signs of aging in the face and neck, such as ... loose skin and excess fat of the neck that can appear as a double chin or 'turkey neck.'"
This is only relevant because when the nation's commander in chief should have been preparing to discuss the measures needed to stop the commencement of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula during his meeting later in the day with the South Korean President, he took the time to tweet the nation and the world his impressions of Mika Brzezinski during a prior visit to Mar-a-Lago.
In two sequential and bizarre tweets, even taking into consideration the low bar previously set by Mr. Trump, the President stated:
"I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came ... to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"
In responding to the tweets, Scarborough and Brzezinski in their op-ed recounted conduct by the President that, if true, looks and feels like a form of what most people think of as blackmail or extortion. But it probably falls short of the criminal offense.
The MSNBC cable stars assert:
"This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas."
If what they wrote is true, presumably, the President was seeking to make a trade -- the "quid pro quo" being that the President would quash the bad press coverage of Scarborough and Brzezinski by the National Enquirer in exchange for their promise to stop criticizing Mr. Trump.
It sounds like blackmail because it really feels like he is saying: Stop criticizing me or I will see to it that the National Enquirer will print a false story about you.
And in fact there is a federal criminal statute prohibiting extortion and blackmail by federal officers or employees and those impersonating federal officers or employees: 18 US Code Chapter 42
But to prove a criminal act, the statute requires a demonstration that the accused used or threatened the use of the power of their office or position to commit the illegal act. In the case of Joe and Mika, President Trump has had a long-standing prior friendship with the publisher of the National Enquirer and it would be impossible to establish that the publisher would follow a suggestion to kill the story -- whether because of a long-standing friendship or because Mr. Trump was President or was soon to assume the presidency.
At law the distinction is critical and in this fact-pattern virtually unprovable.
Also, politicians, as a matter of routine, trade favors -- like using influence to kill stories -- and it is hardly likely that any jury would find someone guilty of a crime for such an act. Presidents have always, for instance, used their influence and that of their subordinates to quash embarrassing press coverage about their children or other family members.
If a President promised an exclusive interview with a magazine if that magazine killed a story about an embarrassing school incident involving his child, would that be extortion or blackmail? Most jurors and prosecutors would think not. Such a case would never be pursued.
The President's reprehensible tweets with respect to Joe and Mika indicate a frightening lack of judgment and a petty desire for revenge unhealthy in a man who controls the nuclear football. It demeans the dignity of the presidency and should give the American public a lot to worry about during the President's interactions with foreign leaders, who hope to find a stable and emotionally controlled American leader in the perilous times ahead.
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One house, two countries: This home is unique as it gets
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(CNN)Imagine entering through the front door of a two-story house in Beebe Plain, Vermont, then heading out to the backyard and standing in Standstead, Quebec.
Brian DuMoulin, 71, inherited the property from his aunt over 40 years ago. Built in 1782, the nine-bedroom, three-bathroom historic building known as the "Old Stone House" rests on the US and Canadian border. The south side faces Canusa Street in Vermont, a name referencing the two countries where the building stands. DuMoulin is now trying to sell the home, which has been vacant for years, but it hasn't been easy. He told CNN affiliate WCAX that he has yet to accept any offers.
The circumstance of the home allowed the original owners to conduct business on both sides of the border, a catch that appealed to DuMoulin's aunt who acquired the property in the 1950s.
Today, going back and forth between the two countries is not as easy -- the northern exit of the house, which leads to Canada stays secured, for border protection reasons. And unless you're a dual citizen, life in and around the house will certainly have its challenges.
The house is listed by realtor Rosemary Lalime and is currently going for $109,000. For that money, security is one of the property's biggest -- and most necessary -- perks. Armed officers on both sides of the border guard the area 24 hours a day.
Troy Rabideau, assistant port director of Derby Line in Vermont, says because the house is in a unique position, security is paramount in that area. Border patrol officers on the US side make sure to do a lot of outreach so they are familiar with the community on their side of the border.
However, one thing to think about, DuMoulin tells WCAX, is the extra costs of living life on the edges. He pays property taxes proportionally to both the US and Canada.
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One house, two countries: This home is unique as it gets
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(CNN)Imagine entering through the front door of a two-story house in Beebe Plain, Vermont, then heading out to the backyard and standing in Standstead, Quebec.
Brian DuMoulin, 71, inherited the property from his aunt over 40 years ago. Built in 1782, the nine-bedroom, three-bathroom historic building known as the "Old Stone House" rests on the US and Canadian border. The south side faces Canusa Street in Vermont, a name referencing the two countries where the building stands. DuMoulin is now trying to sell the home, which has been vacant for years, but it hasn't been easy. He told CNN affiliate WCAX that he has yet to accept any offers.
The circumstance of the home allowed the original owners to conduct business on both sides of the border, a catch that appealed to DuMoulin's aunt who acquired the property in the 1950s.
Today, going back and forth between the two countries is not as easy -- the northern exit of the house, which leads to Canada stays secured, for border protection reasons. And unless you're a dual citizen, life in and around the house will certainly have its challenges.
The house is listed by realtor Rosemary Lalime and is currently going for $109,000. For that money, security is one of the property's biggest -- and most necessary -- perks. Armed officers on both sides of the border guard the area 24 hours a day.
Troy Rabideau, assistant port director of Derby Line in Vermont, says because the house is in a unique position, security is paramount in that area. Border patrol officers on the US side make sure to do a lot of outreach so they are familiar with the community on their side of the border.
However, one thing to think about, DuMoulin tells WCAX, is the extra costs of living life on the edges. He pays property taxes proportionally to both the US and Canada.
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