Celebrating five years and kicking off Season 6 of Transit Unplugged, Paul Comfort, host of the popular podcast and a transit evangelist, interviews Rich Davey, President of New York City Transit, New York Mta – one of the world’s largest and most complex public transportation systems – in a special anniversary episode. The episode airs Wednesday, November 2, on all major podcast platforms.
In this interview, Paul and Rich talk about the current state of transit in New York City, as well as fare recovery, the importance of transit to keeping New York City moving, and the plans for congestion zones in New York City. As a passionate advocate for transit, Rich believes public transport is an essential part of every city.
Season 6 builds on the success of Season 5 which featured interviews with public transport leaders like Mj Maynard (Las Vegas Rtd), Kevin Quinn (Translink), Laura Koprowski (Tarta), Terry White (King County Metro...
In this interview, Paul and Rich talk about the current state of transit in New York City, as well as fare recovery, the importance of transit to keeping New York City moving, and the plans for congestion zones in New York City. As a passionate advocate for transit, Rich believes public transport is an essential part of every city.
Season 6 builds on the success of Season 5 which featured interviews with public transport leaders like Mj Maynard (Las Vegas Rtd), Kevin Quinn (Translink), Laura Koprowski (Tarta), Terry White (King County Metro...
- 11/2/2022
- Podnews.net
Attorneys for Rosie O’Donnell are firing back at a lawsuit filed against the ex co-host of “The View” by a former producer of the show, calling the complaint “inflammatory and defective.” O’Donnell is being sued by former “View” senior producer Jennifer Shepard-Brookman, who claims that she was fired after O’Donnell accused her of leaking confidential information about the show to the media. However, in a memorandum supporting O’Donnell’s motion to dismiss the suit filed Thursday in New York Supreme Court, O’Donnell’s lawyers say she had no authority over ABC’s employment decisions,...
- 11/20/2015
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Little more than a month after an ex-senior producer on The View went after the show’s former co-host for defamation and being the cause of her pink slipping, Rosie O'Donnell has spoken up today – and she wants Jennifer Shepard-Brookman's lawsuit tossed out of court. "Brookman' s attempt to disclaim all responsibility for her situation and collect a payout by filing an inflammatory and defective complaint against a former co-host of the Show should be rejected," said a…...
- 11/19/2015
- Deadline TV
Rosie O’Donnell is being sued by a former senior producer of the View who claims that the comedian slandered her in front of the show’s staff and got her fired. The suit, filed by Jennifer Shepard-Brookman in New York state court on Thursday, Oct. 15, states that O’Donnell resented her fellow co-host, and moderator of the ABC daytime show, Whoopi Goldberg, the Hollywood Reporter reports. In her complaint, Shepard-Brookman says she was fired in 2015 after having worked on the show since 2011, and claims that O’Donnell [...]...
- 10/17/2015
- Us Weekly
A former senior producer of The View has sued Rosie O’Donnell, claiming the co-host of the ABC daytime program got her fired by slandering her in front of the show's other producers and staff. Jennifer Shepard-Brookman claims she was fired in 2015 after having worked on The View since 2001. Her complaint, filed Thursday in New York state court, states O’Donnell resented longstanding moderator Whoopi Goldberg and wanted to unseat her from the moderator spot. Shepard-Brookman claims O'Donnell "accused Ms. Brookman of teaming with Ms. Goldberg to undermine Ms. O'Donnell." For instance, Shepard-Brookman says O'Donnell
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- 10/17/2015
- by Austin Siegemund-Broka
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More than six months after she was let go from daytime talker The View, former show producer Jennifer Shepard-Brookman has taken Rosie O'Donnell to court. In a jury-seeking complaint filed this week in New York, The View's once veteran and Emmy-winning senior producer alleges that the former co-host cost her a job of 14 years by blaming her for leaks in the press about backstage tensions at the show. Seeking unspecified compensatory damages, Brookman also claims that…...
- 10/16/2015
- Deadline TV
Former “The View” senior producer Jennifer Shepard-Brookman sued Rosie O’Donnell on Thursday, calling the former co-host a “bully” who created a threatening environment that made the producer fear for her safety. “My client started crying,” Shepard-Brookman’s attorney Brian Kennedy said in court documents about a September 2014 incident in which O’Donnell allegedly went off on his client for shifting coverage of beheaded journalist James Foley over to co-host Whoopi Goldberg. Shepard-Brookman was “scared of Rosie and thought she was going to be assaulted,” Kennedy wrote in court documents, adding that O’Donnell got right into Shepard-Bookman’s face,...
- 10/16/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
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