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Bus Travel

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Long Live the G-Train? New Petition Tries to Preserve Park Slope Extension

    Well, here are four words we never thought we would type: Save the G-train? Brooklyn's straphangers, known to love the looping line as much as they hate it, are now rallying in support of the G: District Leader Lincoln Restler has organized a petition to keep the MTA from cutting off full Church Av ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    New Yorkers Say the MTA Is Bleeding Them Dry

    ​What sucks even more than commuting to work? Having to wait longer and pay more to commute to work, that is. Unfortunately, it looks like that's exactly what's happening in New York. Check it out: Transportation Alternatives, a commuter-advocacy group, surveyed a bunch of New Yorkers last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Obama in City Tonight, Don't Bother Leaving Your Office or Apartment

    ​The President is coming to town to fundraise this evening, so plan on being stuck wherever you are right now (sucks if you're at work), since commuting is kinda impossible when Obama visits. Bus routes have been already changed, an MTA spokeswoman tells Runnin' Scared. Nothing has been said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    M50 Bus Wins "Slower Than a Lawnmower" Acclaim

    According to this year's annual "Pokey" award, the slowest local bus route in New York City is the M50, which travels crosstown on 49th and 50th Streets between First and Twelfth Avenues, clocking in at just 3.5 miles per hour at noon on a weekday, according to Straphangers Campaign staff and volunt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Thomas Truex, Bus Driver, Sat Dead in Idling Bus at Port Authority for Five Hours

    ​A New Jersey Transit bus driver sat dead in the passenger seat of his idling bus at the Port Authority for five hours before being noticed, the Post reports. The bus returned from the Meadowlands at 10:30 a.m. Sunday and Thomas Truex's body wasn't discovered until later that afternoon. The ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Astorians Mourn Departed Bus and Subway Lines, Want to Bring Back the QM22

    ​Politicians, civic groups, and commuters gathered yesterday by the Astoria-Ditmars subway stop to mark the death-iversary of their dearly departeds: the W train and the QM22 bus line. One year ago, the MTA eliminated the W and V trains and dozens of bus lines, and reduced services throughout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    The Upper West Side Could Get 'Limo Lanes'

    ​The Department of Transportation is thinking about creating "limo lanes" -- yes, lanes for limousines -- on the Upper West Side, because people who live in the Trump and Extell buildings on Riverside Drive from West 63rd to West 72nd are, apparently, causing traffic jams with their "chauffeur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Taken for a Ride: Another MTA Select Bus Horror Story

    The MTA's new cash cowThe only thing that's certain about the MTA's Select Bus is that people are being taken for a ride by the setup through which passengers have to buy tickets before boarding. The city has handed out more than $1 million in summonses to riders, so the Select Bus "has increasingly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Update: City Serves Temporary Restraining Order to Bus Man Running Charters along MTA-Cut Lines

    ​A week and a half ago, we spoke to Joel Azumah, the 27-year-old who began running charter buses along the X25, X29, X90, QM22 lines recently cut by the MTA. The city Department of Transportation sent him a cease and desist letter at the end of June, when he started his service, but he kept hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Brooklyn Man Picks Up MTA-Cut Bus Routes, but Business is a Bust

    ​Joel Azumah, 27, who runs a small charter bus company, TransportAzumah, replaced recently cut public bus routes (X25, X29, X90, QM22) with his own private routes today in an attempt to turn a profit while helping people get to work. "Some of these routes are in very good locations with very l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    'Screw Hipster Brooklyn' Season in Full Effect for MTA: L-Train Service Cuts

    ​Well, now you have an excuse for not going to Brooklyn that's better than the old "I didn't get my visa in order" some crafty Manhattanites have been using for far too long, now. Even though, really, you should have visas ready, lest you run into any of our own tight-jeaned frogs on the way i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    MTA Meets the People, Before Deciding on New Reasons to Hate Them.

    ​You think your morning commute sucked? Imagine taking the subway to go talk to the MTA this morning.

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    MTA Considers Cuts; Parents, Disabled Advocates, Others Complain

    There's no B or D service into Manhattan because of a sick passenger, and the MTA board is preparing to vote on service cuts to pull the Authority out of the red ($400 million) -- into which it sank, just months after the last Doomsday "rescue" plan, thanks to spectacular financial mismanagement -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    MTA Stocking Stuffer? May Shut M and Z Trains, "Dozens" of Bus Routes

    This Christmas season, the MTA is planning a treat for all of us: service cuts! These were threatened during the last "Doomsday Budget" tsimmis, but relinquished when the fares went up. Now MTA is out of money again, and is considering the removal of "dozens of bus routes," and the W and Z subway l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Thompson Unveils Online "How Bad Will Your Commute Suck?" Game

    Comptroller and mayoral candidate William Thompson just unveiled one of those cute online interactive games. Go here, and you can put in your zip code, push a button, and find out how much worse your transit service will get when the MTA's proposed cutbacks go into effect. Ours is looking pretty awf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2009

    Gioia, LIC Residents Protest 7 Train Service Interruptions

    Straphangers are inconvenienced by the MTA all the time. This is especially true on the weekends, when construction-based service interruption after service interruption can turn a 10-minute commute into an hour-long, three-transfer horror show. The people of Long Island City, faced with an upc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Subway Fare Going Up To As Much As $3

    Straphangers are inconvenienced by the MTA all the time. This is especially true on the weekends, when construction-based service interruption after service interruption can turn a 10-minute commute into an hour-long, three-transfer horror show. The people of Long Island City, faced with an upc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    Assault, Theft Trouble City Buses

    Straphangers are inconvenienced by the MTA all the time. This is especially true on the weekends, when construction-based service interruption after service interruption can turn a 10-minute commute into an hour-long, three-transfer horror show. The people of Long Island City, faced with an upc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2008

    Day of the Chicken, the Ikea Bus and More

    Straphangers are inconvenienced by the MTA all the time. This is especially true on the weekends, when construction-based service interruption after service interruption can turn a 10-minute commute into an hour-long, three-transfer horror show. The people of Long Island City, faced with an upc ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2007

    Bus Kill

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2007

    National Mobilization Against the War

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2006

    Cyclist Hurt? Blame the Transit Strike

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2005

    You're Walking, They're Talking

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2005

    It's Off to Work They Go

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2005

    Step by Step: Before the Trains Can Run Again

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2005

    A Strike -- Partially

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • NYC Life

    October 19, 2004

    Close-Up on Jamaica

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • NYC Life

    July 27, 2004

    Close-Up on Weehawken

    In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

  • News

    January 22, 2002

    Outer-Borough Battler

    A Labor Leader Challenges His Own

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