UNION ASKING JUDGE TO EXTEND MTA DECREE.Byline: Daily News The Bus Riders Union asked a federal judge on Wednesday Wednesday: see week. to extend a decade-old consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. against the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. for five more years, claiming the transit agency has failed to do enough to ease crowding on buses. In a statement, the BRU said 95 percent of the bus routes it monitored had an average of eight riders standing, in violation VIOLATION. An act done unlawfully and with force. In the English stat. of 25 E. III., st. 5, c. 2, it is declared to be high treason in any person who shall violate the king's companion; and it is equally high treason in her to suffer willingly such violation. of the consent decree. But Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials say their surveys show they are in compliance 98 percent of the time. ``We believe we are in full compliance with the consent decree,'' said MTA spokesman Marc Littman. ``The BRU can say whatever it wants, but the fact is that we have spent $1 billion to improve services.'' Over the last decade, the agency has added more than 2,000 buses and kept bus rider fares low. But the BRU maintains that these services and fares are in danger as fiscal woes mount and the MTA looks for ways to close a $112 million budget deficit. ``We are concerned that this sets up the conditions for MTA to claim the only way to balance the budget in the future is to make bus riders pay with service cuts and fare increases,'' the BRU statement said. The BRU is asking the court to extend the consent decree until 2011. Currently, there is no one monitoring compliance issues. Special master Donald Donald (Domnall, Domhnall, Dumhnuil, Dónall) is an anglicized version of a Scottish or Irish Gaelic personal name, containing the elements dumno "world" and val "rule", viz. "ruler of the world". Compare Dumnorix. Bliss resigned earlier this year, and the federal judge overseeing the case declined to appoint To designate, select, or assign authority to a position or an office. Although sometimes used interchangeably, elect and appoint do not have the same meaning. Election refers to the selection of a public officer by the qualified voters of the community, and appointment a replacement. |
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