Let the passengers out first, folks. (Courtesy of flickr user Infinite Jeff)
For the MTA, a “late” subway is all relative. When you have no set schedule, how can a train really be late?
But the trains are supposed to run on time. They’re supposed to enter the station and leave the station in a timely fashion, [...]

Graffiti in the subways is bad. It’s illegal; it’s an eye-sore. Just don’t do that.
Now that we have my disclaimer out of the way, via Gothamist (and as I was writing this, SUBWAYblogger) comes a new take on the old reliable mustache-on-the-newsman subway ad graffiti: Printable Cold Sores
The instructions are easy:
1. Download the cold sore [...]

The saga of the 7 line extension continues. A few weeks after MTA CEO Elliot “Lee” Sander announced that the project was on hold while the city’s contributions to cost overruns was in question, the Transit Authority is proceeding apace with the project, funding be damned. For now.
On Tuesday, the MTA awarded its first contracts [...]

A homeless man sleeps as the uptown 2 leaves 72nd St. This is becoming a common sight on late-nite trains. (Courtesy of flickr user slice_of_danny)
I boarded a downtown 2 train at 96th St. on Saturday night around 11:45 p.m. and encountered a familiar scene. As the car doors slid open and the automated voices loudly [...]

Subway ridership by month, 2005 and 2006. (Source: NYCT Performance Indicators)
The F train is too crowded; there’s no doubt about that. While we’re content to blame bad scheduling and unannounced service cuts, subway ridership numbers are contributing to the overcrowding as well.
After decades of declining ridership numbers, the number of straphangers has shot up over [...]

Well, it’s nearly that dreaded 12:01 a.m. on Saturday morning time when every subway line starts doing something it’s not really supposed to be doing. Want some weekend service advisories?
Well, check them out here.
The West Side and East Side IRT lines are doing that funky thing again; the 7 is, well, basically just screwing everyone [...]

When last Captain Obvious paid us a visit two weeks ago, the good Captain noted that bus schedules around the city were wrong. Big surprise there.
Well, the Captain has returned this week. The story: Those subway schedules available on the MTA’s website aren’t too accurate either. Stop the presses.
In all seriousness, this news is hardly [...]

While the good folks in Queens are still trying to figure out the whole 7 train mess, Theodore Kheel’s recent call for a higher road tax that would subsidize free subway rides has found an unlikely ally among the City’s religious community.
Writing in The Jewish Press, Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum has expressed his support for the [...]

I don’t know what any of that means either. Or as my roomate said, “What the f***?” (Image courtesy of flickr user Plaid Ninja. Click on it for a bigger view.)
So the 7 train. Apparently, it’s a mess, and Queens residents aren’t too happy. I don’t blame them; that service advisory note up there is [...]

Bag inspectors working to guard the City’s subways. (Courtesy of flickr user Runs With Scissors.)
I’m not exactly going out a limb if I were to state: “New York City and, in particular, the subways should be considered high priority homeland security targets.” No, around these parts, that’s fairly common knowledge.
But 230 miles to the south, [...]