Transportation News: Congestion Pricing, New Trains Out of Service and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, talks about the latest transportation-related news.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC Trick or Treat, really thanks to Michael Hill and |
| 0:14.4 | company for the great job during the pre-ten o'clock hours of the membership drive on this |
| 0:20.4 | Halloween. |
| 0:21.8 | Have you got your candy buckets next to the door ready to go for this afternoon and this |
| 0:26.2 | evening? |
| 0:27.2 | We've got our last day membership drive programming for you, including our last day Brian Lera |
| 0:31.2 | Show Low Stakes Pop Quiz at 11 o'clock and today we have a special guest for you in |
| 0:36.7 | that segment. |
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| 0:42.6 | Some of you can call it in play and see if you win a Brian Lera Show baseball hat, |
| 0:47.2 | will shorts and a special WNYC centric puzzle that he wrote coming up at 11 o'clock. |
| 0:54.2 | We will also talk today about a very interesting day in court yesterday in Denver, Colorado. |
| 0:59.4 | Have you heard about this lawsuit that aims to keep Donald Trump off the presidential |
| 1:03.9 | ballot next year because he violated the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment? |
| 1:09.4 | We've got the Colorado Secretary of State coming up later this hour to talk about that. |
| 1:15.6 | And yes, Trick or Treat later on will invite you to call in and say what you or your kids |
| 1:20.8 | are going as this Halloween. |
| 1:23.7 | So we can begin with our transportation reporter, Stephen Nesson, who's been reporting in recent |
| 1:28.8 | days on a few interesting things. |
| 1:30.4 | The introduction of omnifending machines at select subway stations, which Stephen says |
| 1:36.6 | is bringing the metro card one step closer to extinction, is anybody feeling nostalgic |
| 1:41.7 | about metro cards? |
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