If you're walking around with a steaming hot coffee, on the '5' or '4' train at 8:30 in the morning...I would hope..that cop would give you a summons because you have no right to do that.

If you had an open container on the train yesterday, you would receive the summons. It's the same summons.

I'm going to look at accelerating it, ... I'm not going to say I can absolutely guarantee it, but I'm going to look at it.

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

We want to go from confrontation to cooperation, ... We want our members and our workers to have health care, we want our members to get wages and improvements based on productivity. Most of all, we want our workers to be treated with dignity.

The expert could be wrong. And we need to make a decision and that was the decision that we made.

We worked out a package which rewards all of those who ride our system. It wasn't quite perfect. I'll probably admit that, but I think it was very nice and I am proud of the board for giving this holiday present to all of our customers.

will alleviate major congestion at and around the Beacon train station and over the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge and improve the quality of the commute for Orange County residents.

That was his opinion, ... It wasn't borne out by the marketplace.

It is becoming clear that we are rapidly approaching the point at which further waiting would be futile.