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May 9, 2012
LIRR: Smooth Operator or Rife With Problems?
The Long Island Rail Road isn't just fraught with fraud: Looks like the MTA's plan to hook up the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal might be delayed a third time, the New York Post reports. What this means? The long-awaited, $7 billion connection wouldn't be complete until 2019, four years after the ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Will Subway Stations Soon Have Wifi?
Subway fares might be going up, The MTA's capital plan might be funded by debt, and the city's mass transit lines might be overrun by rats but hey, commuting in New York might not be all bad. Boingo and Transit Wireless will start hooking up wifi in the city's subway stations over the next five yea ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Affiliates Chain Subway Gates Open For Fare Strike
A group calling itself the "Rank and File Initiative" claimed credit yesterday for opening up more than 20 subway stations throughout the city for free entry. Chaining open emergency gates at stations on the F, L, R, Q, 3, and 6 lines during rush hour yesterday morning, the anonymous activists post ... More >>
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
March 1, 2012
Transportation Advocates Fight Planned MTA Fee Increases
The MTA will increase fares again in 2013 -- meaning that riders will be hit with the fourth such fee hike since 2007. While this isn't exactly breaking -- the New York legislature long ago gave the green light to transit rate increases every two years -- what's worth mentioning is that transporta ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
MTA Plans 59 More Nights of Subway Closures This Year
Brace yourselves -- MTA plans at least 59 more nights of subway closures this year under its new FasTrack program. In total, that adds up to 413 hours of limited service on certain subway lines. Every month this year (except August and December) will see at least one major line shut down for repairs ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
New York's Ugliest Rat Calls Seventh Avenue Station Home
via Rat Free SubwaysLet's face it -- as New Yorkers, we have certainly seen our fair share of ugly rats. They're in the parks, in the subway, and if you're particularly unlucky, in your apartment building. But this rat -- this rat is the ugliest, at least according to the Transit Workers Un ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
The NYC Subway from Birth to Now, in One Gif
It's been a good few days for subway nerdists -- earlier in the week we were all agawk over the "Lost Subways" map of NYC, which showed the subways that would have been but weren't. Yesterday we saw what happens when people stop being real and start being polite (even friendly!) on the subway. Today ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
The MTA's Evening Shutdown of 4, 5, and 6 Trains For Track Repair Starts Monday
Back in November, it was announced that the MTA would implement a new measure, which they're calling "FASTTRACK," in order to repair lines that are constantly running and, it seems, constantly in need of fixing in some way or another (some of them have been around a long time, you know!). They said ... More >>
News
January 4, 2012
Air Safety on the Cheap
They're responsible for airport security but contractors still make poverty wages
Blogs
December 12, 2011
How Happy Is Your Subway Stop?
The L train = happy by day, happier at night. Making us happy today is a project called HappyStance, recent winner of Hack Day and "a mashup of Twitter geo-location API data and sentiment analysis research," reports the New York Times. Essentially, it's an app, created by Jeff Larson, Al Shaw ... 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
November 14, 2011
MTA to Start Doing Weeknight Subway Line Repair Closures
The latest coolest thing the MTA is doing: closing the subway on weeknights. According to NY1, the MTA has plans to close some lines for repairs for up to five consecutive weeknights from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. This is a shift from the MTA's usual M.O., which is to shut down lines on the weekend ( ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
We're Really Freaking Happy With the Subway, Apparently
Despite our own Steven Thrasher's harrowing experience on a smoke-filled 4 train last night, the MTA believes that we are mostly happier with New York City transit than we used to be (and apparently we do, too). According to the results of their just-released 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
October 3, 2011
In 2012, You Will Love the L Train a Little More (or Hate It Slightly Less?)
According to a statement today released by State Senator Daniel Squadron, the MTA will be improving weekend service on the L train, with more frequent trains expected starting in mid 2012. Squadron had requested a review back in July of the service; the results show that the much-maligned lin ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2011
Transport Workers Union Votes Unanimously to Support Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is in its 13th day, with support growing among factions veering from the "grungy unemployed hippie stereotype." There's the event led by two CUNY professors to protest the treatment of the protesters at the hands of the NYPD (Critical Mass has written they'll join in this rally, w ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Hurricane Irene Cost the MTA $110 Million; Fare Increases Still Planned for 2013
The MTA is out $110 million, reports the New York Post, thanks to Hurricane (later, Tropical Storm) Irene. That breaks down into $50 million to fix Metro-North's damaged Port Jervis line, $10 million spent on shuttle buses that ran as the line was down, and $50 million in operating costs, inc ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2011
Weekend Subway Service Has Gotten A Little Better, But That Won't Stop Us From Complaining
One of our favorite things to do on the weekends is gripe, bitch, and generally complain as much as we possibly can about how shitty the subway service is. A lot. But new data reported in the New York Post shows the bane of our existence actually made a small step toward becoming less of a b ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2011
MTA Introduces New Subway Map to Make You Less Angry on Weekends
A portion of one of the new Weekender mapsHave 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 >>
Blogs
September 9, 2011
MTA Bus Drivers Create Their Own Sexy Calendar
viaThe FDNY has long done it, so why not the MTA? A group of rather fit, if we do say so, MTA bus drivers from the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot in Brooklyn have formed a group called Men Taking Action/United Transit Employees. And now they are putting together their own calendar. Michelle, or "Mu ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
MTA's New Financial Plan Shows Fare Increases in 2013, 2015
The MTA Board met this morning to present and discuss its newest financial plan for 2012 through 2015, a plan still in its preliminary stages. To everyone's likely dismay, it projects fare increases, but also promises no service cuts based on the budget. "[The plan] presents at least a fragil ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2011
MTA Weekend Follies, Again: An Investigation
This should absolutely not come as a surprise, but anyone who uses the New York City subway system will experience some trying times this weekend. Do you take the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, D, E, F, G, L, N, Q, or R trains? Sorry 'bout that. For us Williamsburgers, this is par for the course. Th ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
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 >>
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 19, 2011
9/11 Flight Numbers Will Be Retired Forever
United Continental will "permanently retire" flight numbers 93 and 175, Bloomberg reports, in honor of the flights hijacked on September 11, 2011. Over the past decade, the numbers have not been in use, but an error earlier this week caused them to pop up again, much to the chagrin of pilots' ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
Charles Schumer Proposes No-Ride List for Trains
It's been a busy couple days in train news, what with the PATH and Second Avenue subway tunnel breaches, plus that mishap on the PATH that injured 30. There's also a new call from Senator Charles Schumer to increase rail security, which comes after reports that Osama Bin Laden may have been p ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
New MTA Campaign Asks "What's New?"
We had hoped the MTA would revive Poetry in Motion, a collaborative campaign between the MTA and Poetry Society of America that brought the likes of Dylan Thomas and Emily Dickinson to the New York City subway walls in the early 90s, but not all of our wishes can be granted, especially when i ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Big French Plane Hits Small American Plane at JFK
On Monday night an Air France Airbus A380, the biggest passenger plane in use, knocked into a much smaller Comair CRJ 700 Regional Jet at John F. Kennedy International Airport, spinning the tiny thing almost 90-degrees, but injuring no one, NBC New York reports. A minor event when all was said and d ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2011
MTA Goes After East Village Artist for Painting on Used Metrocards [Updated]
Some of the artist's work.The big bad wolf is hungry. Or jealous? EV Grieve today alerted us to the matter of East Village artist VH McKenzie, who has been creating oil paintings on discarded Metrocards that she then sells on Etsy for $48 apiece. The MTA found out about this, and sent her the ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Study Finds 83% of Subway Announcements Are Clear and Accurate, But Uh: No
A new survey by the Straphangers Campaign claims that 83% of subway announcements, including routes, stations and transfer options, are both clear and accurate, making it seem instantly to anyone who has ever been on the subway that something is wrong with this study. New trains with pre-reco ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Poetry in Motion May Return to NYC Subways
When the G train is 45 minutes late, then stops midway through your route for 20 minutes because the train in front has just broken down, the last thing you want to do is stare at an MTA-sponsored sign that states, "Improvements don't just happen." Which is why we're all a bit happier to lear ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2011
World Trade Center Mega-Station Will Cost $3.44 Billion
via WTC.comThe World Trade Center Transportation Hub is set to be one of the City's most massive changes to New York's subway system. The building will have access to PATH trains, 13 subway lines and even the proposed JFK rail link. Sounds awesome, but how much will it cost taxpayers? The New ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2011
The MTA Can Text...Sort of
If you're a Metro-North commuter, the MTA will now text you train schedules and other important information as to the status of your ride. Well, not the MTA, exactly: A technology company named CooCoo is providing the service updates, which are already available for Long Island Rail Road cust ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2011
Subway Rider Mutiny Involves Taking Over N Train for Warmth
New York subway riders will not be stopped! Well, technically, they will be stopped. But when they are stopped on a D train at Coney Island because it's freakin' blizzards outside, they will COMMANDEER another train regardless of what the MTA and NYPD say! (This is good, because we really don ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2011
Will Staten Islanders Finally Be Able To Leave the Island Easily?
Jersey Shore's Angelina and other trapped Staten Islanders may be able to break out from their homes and travel the world soon. Right now, Staten Island residents have two ways to leave via public transportation: the Staten Island Ferry and express buses. Rumors of a Staten Island railway hav ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2011
Central Park Gets 9 Inches of Snow; There's Snow on the Ground in 49 of 50 States
via @DevonGrandy/TwitpicThe snow count is in. We got 9.1 inches last night (according to numbers in Central Park, via NY1). That does not a blizzard make, but it's pretty, for the moment! No major public transport delays, though the MTA has issued a Winter Weather Service Advisory. In related ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
F Train: Now Slightly Less F'ed Up, Officially
We profess a fondness for the F-train, despite its assorted problems. It's OUR train, and thus, while we can talk shit about it, no one else can. But every train has problems, right? At least the F's not the G. And, via the latest New York City Transit report, our little F train has finally a ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2010
Someday You Really Will Talk on Your Cell Phone in the Subway...Probably
The MTA didn't forget about that cell service on subways that they've been talking about for so long. Yes, true, even though July brought the "green light" for Transit Wireless to proceed with making the networks happen, lack of funding kind of stagnated things. But it's on...again! AT&T and ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2010
MTA to Put Fancy-ChiChi Stores in Subway Stations
Now, here's an MTA scheme we can get behind! The transit authority is trying to get high-end retail stores to open up locations in subway stations, which could provide the double whammy of bringing in more rent money and making it easier to buy trinkets during your commute.
Blogs
August 11, 2010
The MTA: Now Busting Even More of You for Tardies
Well, this is awkward. Back in June, the MTA introduced the NYC Transit Delay Verification System, an Internet memo of sorts into which you enter in your subway information and time; the program will confirm whether you were legitimately late, or just faking it because you overslept after a n ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
MTA Spending $34 Million This Year on Employee "Overtime" (Read: Vacation)
These days, no news from the MTA is good news.Turns out the transit authority is spending $34 million this year on overtime for workers who aren't actually working, but are on vacation, out sick, etc.
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
June 23, 2010
Update: MTA "Fixes" One Problem, Creates Another -- and So It Goes
As of yesterday, the MTA planned to lay off two bus drivers currently at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a humanitarian move, perhaps realizing that the stress of war need not be coupled with the stress of job loss -- or that they would be getting some very bad publicity -- the MTA changed it ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2010
The MTA Can't Do Much Right Lately: Two Deployed Bus Drivers Laid Off While at War
Reading about the MTA's decisions is often like swallowing a cactus, especially when news of truly unfortunate cutbacks comes in quick succession with news of huge spending. Earlier this morning, we reported that the MTA is shelling out big bucks for tenants temporarily displaced by Second Av ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
The MTA PayPass Pilot Program Starts Today: Death of Metrocard Forthcoming
Happy June 1st! If you didn't know, today is the magical day that the New York/New Jersey Port Authority and related transportation organizations with be experimenting with Mastercard's PayPass technology at certain MTA subway stops, buses, and on the NJ Transit. More importantly: in other wo ... More >>
Columns
May 11, 2010
Mass Transit Cuts Leave Passengers Stranded
Big wheels unmoved
Blogs
April 26, 2010
Commuting Report: Subway Ridership Down, Bikes on the Up
Over the weekend New York City Transit released a whole bunch of data about how we ride the subway. It turns out, ridership for 2009 was down slightly from 2008 (blame the economy and the fact that a bunch of us were unemployed; if you're the MTA, blame construction).
Blogs
April 14, 2010
April Fool's Prank Still on Subway Wall
Reader Rick Shur notes that an April 1st prank poster about extreme subway security measures, put up on the 110th Street downtown #1 subway wall, is still there! And the satirical poster involves all kinds of intrusive, invasive body searches that Homeland Security is allowed to do on passe ... More >>
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