Public Transportation

Ads Calling Islamic Jihadists "Savages" Hit NYC Subways. Related: "Making Graffiti" Only A Misdemeanor In New York

Just in time for day one of the meeting of the United Nations' General Assembly -- when people from across the world will be in the Big Apple to see how civilized and accepting New Yorkers are -- an ad campaign is going up in the New York City subway system that calls Muslim jihadists "savages."We w ... More >>

Watch the Last 100 Years of New York City Subway Maps

Today in subway porn we have a beautiful depiction of the ebb and flow and changing formats of the New York City subway map over the years. The only thing better than watching the map come of age to the inspirationally epic music in the video created by Gizmodo's Matt Toder back in December (Bowery ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Denied Injunction Against City's Use of Bus Drivers to Transport Arrested Protesters; Suit Not Dismissed

Today the Transport Workers Union, which last week voted unanimously in support of Occupy Wall Street, went to court to fight against the city's use of city bus drivers to transport arrested protesters. Following the Brooklyn Bridge arrests on Saturday, the Union said the NYPD had commandeered numer ... More >>

MTA Introduces New Subway Map to Make You Less Angry on Weekends

A portion of one of the new Weekender maps​Have you heard of "the Weekender"? No, it's not this. It's a new online mapping system that the MTA hopes will help make you less angry on weekends! Basically, this is the MTA's admittance to you that, yes, they mess up a lot of your plans on weekend ... More >>

New Yorkers Demand Use of Subway on Weekends, Now

Not quite like Tokyo -- yet.​An article in the New York Times today alerts us to something you've probably known about, at least anecdotally, for a while. Good to have it proven, though, if only so your complaining can be official! Despite New York subways frequently having longer waits, screw ... More >>

Subway "Report Card" Reveals that Even the Best Line (the 7) Isn't Worth $2.25 a Ride

​The State of the Subways Fall 2010 "Report Card" (seriously, guys, can we get a new name for this? We're having icky flashbacks) has been handed out by the Straphangers Campaign. And the rankings are intriguing! Did you know that subway riders want "short waits, trains that arrive regularly, ... More >>

The $100 Not-Unlimited Metrocard is Coming, and There's Nothing You Can Do to Stop It

​This morning, it was widely reported that after eliminating some subway lines and some bus lines and, oh yeah, trying to can a bunch of subway booth workers, the MTA is now considering raising fares yet again. How?

Subway Bathrooms Are Grosser Than Gross

Just like at Mom's house.​If you've ever had to go -- like, really go -- while confined to the innards of the New York City subway system, you've gotten your own little private taste of hell. And if you haven't, the fearless hand-sanitizer-toting journalists at amNewYork have done the dirty wo ... More >>

Your Moment of Sigh: Other People's Subway Stations

Designboom has a nice spread of dazzling subway stations from all over the world -- a cavelike, leaf-printed Stockholm entrance, a ribbed tube leading into the Bilbao Metro, a Rubbermaid theme in Prague, Imperial splendor in Moscow, these giant heatlamps in the U-bahn, etc. Glean it and weep; as w ... More >>

THERE SHE IS . . .

Who will be the first ever Miss G Train?

MTA Chief Considers Off-Peak Pricing for Subways, Buses

Ride the whole system, all for the low price of [insert current fare here]! That's been the beauty of New York City transit. But the variable pricing afforded by unlimited-ride cards has blurred that distinction, and new MTA chairman, Jay Walder, may erase it: he is looking at "time-of-day pricing" ... More >>

D.A.: Queens Contractor Stiffed Workers $600K

A Long Island-City-based contractor with ties to the MTA was indicted today for cheating its employees out of $600,000. The firm, M.A. Angeliades, which had been contracted to repair 11 subway stations, had 150 employees (though the District Attorney's office wouldn't say how many were defrauded). ... More >>

MTA Hearings, Like Subway, Overcrowded with Long Delays

Nearly 100 people remained outside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare hike hearing in Manhattan almost an hour after it began on Wednesday evening, their wait caused by stepped-up security measures and what appeared to be the authority's failure to anticipate the crowd. "We've recentl ... More >>

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 >>

Thompson: Charge Cars By the Pound

MTA Unveils Images from Unaffordable Second Ave. Subway

EZ Pass: Times Finds NYers Won't Say No to a Free Ride

Transit Union Strikes a Deal

Report: Strike End in Sight

You're Walking, They're Talking

Remember the Stadium? Unions do

Strikebound

Transit Strike: Shivering in Sunset Park

Three Days? MTA Worker's Strike Prediction

MTA Strike: The Politics of No-Tomorrow

Fault Line

Deal or no deal, transit workers want more respect, less punishment

Transit: Wage Rage

Tick Tock Transit

A Strike -- Partially

Transit Countdown

Transit Showdown

New Threat Renews Old Tactic

Random searches on the New York City subways are as much about the appearance of safety as safety itself

Miller's Vow: More Subway Surveillance

Terror by the Numbers

Random searches are as much about the appearance of safety as safety itself

New York Subways and Terror: What, Us Worry?

London bombings raise questions about Gotham's transit system

Exit Strategy

When it comes to subways and terrorism, the best defense might be a good escape

Subway Woes: Follow the Money

Win One for the Gyppers

With a strong push from city hall, MTA moves the ball for the Jets

Stadium Fear Factor

Many builders dislike the West Side stadium. Only one says so out loud.

Close-Up on the Jersey City Waterfront

Forbidden Photos, Anyone?

Subway shooters to set their sights on underground camera ban

Getting Better All the Time

Inside New York's Quiet Success Stories

Film

Transit Hurrah

The People Who Stood Up to the MTA Bullies

Busking for Bucks

Terrors of a Subway Rider

Notes From the Underground

Mixed Signals

City Promises No Driverless Trains, but Sets Track for Automatic Subway

Underground Rumblings

A Modern Militant Vies to Revive the Transit Union

Big Apple for Sale

City Peddles Spare Parts Online

Buses and Foes

Community Says 'No' to Reopening Depot