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'G' is For Gone -
G Train Loses Nearly Half its Weekend Stops
by Neille Ilel (Queens Chronicle)
For a Maligned Line,
a Minor Victory
by Jake Mooney (NY Times)
G! This is Progress
by Rachel Alkon and Melissa
Grace (New York Daily News)
Editorial piece
Greenpoint Star
Let Us Take a Free Swipe
By Shane Miller (Greenpoint Star)
Transfer paper plan to
Metrocard - group
By Kevin Murawinski
(New York Daily News)
Why I Love the G
By Lisa Keys (New York Post)
Rush Hour Reality
By Joe Rappaport (amNewYork)
Gary Younge in New York
Art project maps the G to save it
By Marcin Szczepanski (Polish Daily News)
October 24, 2002 When One New Train Equals One Less Express By Randy Kennedy (New York Times) July 9, 2002 Transit Activists Vent Over V Train by Dan Mangan (New York Post) June 26, 2002 Protesters: Re-Route V Line By Lola Alapo (NY Newsday Staff Writer) June 25, 2002 V for Victory? Not in This War By Ray Sanchez (NY Newsday) May 16, 2002 TA's Ready to Roll Out V Train Ads By Pete Donohue (NY Daily News) May 9, 2002 Ups and Downs of Getting There By Ray Sanchez (NY Newsday) May 6, 2002 The V Line By Bruce Schaller (Gotham Gazette) May 2, 2002 V Train Will Get There, TA Insists By Pete Donohue (NY Daily News) May 2, 2002 Top Priority Should Go to the Subways By Roberta Brandes Gratz April 29, 2002 TA Pushes for Riders on V Train By Pete Donohue (NY Daily News) April 26, 2002 A New York-Induced Exercise By Randy Kennedy (NY Times) April 9, 2002 "The V Files" A Cartoon By Peter Kuper (NY Times) March 31, 2002 The Subway's Walkways Not Running Well By Pete Donohue (NY Daily News) March 31, 2002 E and F Keep on Jammin' - But there are seats to spare on the V train after 3 mos. By Jonathan Lemire and Pete Donohue (NY Daily News) March 25, 2002 Sentiments Expressed for the G Train by Mark Foggin (editorial) Feb. 12, 2002 New V Line Doesn't Ease E Train Crowding by Ray Sanchez (Newsday) Jan. 23, 2002 E's a Crowd by Bobby Cuza (Newsday) Dec. 18, 2001 V Train Rolls in at Last by Jonathan Lemire and Pete Donohue (NY Daily News) Dec. 18, 2001 Lonesome Newcomer, Taking it Slowly, Seeks Riders by Randy Kennedy (NY Times) Dec. 18, 2001 In Queens, to V or Not to V? by Bobby Cuza (Newsday) Dec. 17, 2001 V Train Baffles Straphangers — and Rudy by Jonathan Lemire (Daily News) Dec. 17, 2001 V Train Begins Service, Giving Queens Commuters Another Option By Sarah Kershaw (NY Times) Dec. 17, 2001 V Train Starts Rumbling From Queens To Manhattan (NY1 News) Dec. 17, 2001 New "V" Subway Line Rolls Into Service (ABCnews.com) Dec. 17, 2001 All Aboard the V Train (CBSnewyork.com) Dec. 17, 2001 V Day for Straphangers by Pete Donohue (Daily News) Dec. 16, 2001 Trains Take New Twists and Turns by Bobby Cuza (Newsday) Dec. 16, 2001 Subway Changes Won't Be Derailed by Bobby Cuza (Newsday) Oct. 16, 2001 Sub Wayward By Modern Humorist (New York Magazine) August 6, 2001 Cuts on G Line a Sign of Mismanagement op-ed by Roger Toussaint June 5, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-06-05/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-113687.asp Half a Subway Line - editorial May 28, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-28/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-112719.asp (click on link, then scroll down the page to read article) The 'G'reat Train Robbery by Bill Chambers May 25, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-25/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-112425.asp (click on link, then scroll down the page to read article) MTA Panel OKs Subway Overhaul by Pete Donohue May 25, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-25/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-112465.asp MTA's Easing Up on G Train Cutback by Pete Donohue May 24, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-24/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-112365.asp Subway Vote Postponed – Changes in G line among those tabled til May 24 by Michael O. Allen May 16, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-16/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-111326.asp V Train Launch Off Track by Pete Donohue April 24, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-04-24/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-108569.asp Greenpoint Renaissance by Joe Dziemianowicz April 22, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-04-22/New_York_Now/Cityscape/a-108142.asp Council Questions Subway Service Cuts (New York Times) April 20, 2001 Protesters Unite in G Fight by Bill Egbert April 20, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-04-20/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-107982.asp Council Questions Subway Service Cuts by Erika Kinetz April 20, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/nyregion/20SUBW.html?searchpv=site10 G Line Has Advocate in Green – Joins Protest Against Cut by Tamer El-Ghobashy April 18, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-04-18/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-107708.asp MTA May Keep G Whizzing by Pete Donohue and Bill Egbert April 5, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-04-05/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-106083.asp Union Joins Nabes vs. TA by Robert Ingrassia March 29, 2001, File Size: 22k http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-29/news_and_views/city_beat/a-105220.asp Rally Tracks G Train Cuts by Bill Egbert March 29, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-29/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-105149.asp He’s Fighting the G Fight by Elizabeth Hays March 23, 2001, File Size: 23k http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-23/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-104381.asp G Parley a Bust, Foes Say by Elizabeth Hays March 20, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-20/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-103982.asp G Train Riders Rally Against Service Cut by Elizabeth Hays March 16, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-16/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-103476.asp Plans for Subway Line Derail Easy Ride by Albor Ruiz March 12, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-12/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-102958.asp Pataki Delays MTA Talk of Service Cuts by Pete Donohue March 10, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-10/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-102803.asp Vote on V-Line Proposal Delayed – Riders Protest plan to cut G line stops by Mohamad Bazzi March 10, 2001 http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/saturday/nd4262.htm Editorials: Transit Honcho on Wrong Track March 9, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-09/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-102606.asp Riders Rail at G-Train Cuts by Elizabeth Hays In the final weeks before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board votes on a slew of proposed subway changes, the battle over cuts to the G line is heating up. March 01, 2001, File Size: 24k http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-01/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-101571.asp G Train is Vital to Queens, Brooklyn Queens Gazette editorial February 28, 2001 Editorials: Don't Stop G Train in Its Tracks Poor little G train. It gets no respect. Labeled by the uninformed as the train to nowhere, it is actually Brooklyn's cross-borough artery and shows a growing ridership. But the Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to shorten it by 13 stops. Bad move. And a bad way to treat Brooklyn. February 20, 2001, File Size: 25k http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-02-20/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-100427.asp Nabes Get on Board to Fight G-Line Cuts by Elizabeth Hays February 07, 2001 http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-02-07/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-98919.asp Anger Over Rollback in G Service by Elizabeth Hays The latest flash point among planned changes in Brooklyn subway service is the decision to cut the G line in half. As of the end of August, the G is slated to run between Smith-Ninth Sts. stop in Brooklyn and the Court Square station in Long Island City, Queens. January 30, 2001, File Size: 23k http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-01-30/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-97899.asp Some Want V Train Plan To Go Farther by Pete Donohue Sweeping changes to the subway system ? including one of the first new subway lines in more than a decade ? drew mixed reviews at a public hearing last night. January 24, 2001, File Size: 23k http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-01-24/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-97100.asp Board's Beeline to V Line by Donald Bertrand Even before a public hearing on the planned V line, Forest Hills/Rego Park, Queens, community leaders are giving the proposal a thumbs-up. The proposed subway line would run along the F train route on local tracks from Continental Ave. in Forest Hills to Manhattan's lower East Side. January 23, 2001, File Size: 22k http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-01-23/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-96897.asp Unfinished Repairs, Too Few Subway Cars Chop Brooklyn's V Line (Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Mobilizing the Region) January 15, 2001 | Read article Mystery Train by Annia Ciezadlo City Limits December, 2000 | Read article |
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