AMNY Subway Tracker

(Via the Port Authority)

About the Port Authority may be available soon. But you have to let them know you want it. The keeper of tunnels and bridges will post changes to their operating laws on their Web site for your approval before their July board meeting. The board says the changes will make its meetings more open to the public. Besides giving the public their agendas and other information before board meetings, they'll Web cast the gatherings. The proposed new laws will also require a higher standard of ethics among other things.

-- Marlene Naanes

In a nod to improved management practices at the MTA, the New York State Ethics Commission yesterday awarded the transit agency its seventh annual Theodore Roosevelt Ethics Award. The changes at the MTA include mandatory ethics training for all senior staff— a requirement introduced in recent years after the Ethics Commission charged 19 MTA officials with breaking ethics rules. Many of those charges stemmed from accepting inappropriate gifts with contractors, including meals and golf trips. The MTA received a plaque inscribed with the following quote from Roosevelt: "We can afford to differ on the currency, the tariff, and foreign policy; but we cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure."

-- Justin Rocket Silverman