Nothing screams bureaucracy quite like the Port Authority and the MTA trying to work together to build a ridiculously ornate transit hub in Lower Manhattan. And as we all could imagine, this project has not gone well. First, came the talk of fewer tunnel connectors than called for in the original plan.
Now comes the story [...]

The odds are pretty good this phone doesn’t work. (Courtesy of Flickr user Paololluch)
MTA pay phones are often a last-ditch solution for stranded Straphangers needing to make an underground call.
Just this Monday, in fact, I saw one subway rider walk approach the pay phone with exceptional caution. This woman in her mid-twenties looked to be [...]

Any subway aficionado looking to get around the city quickly has long known about onNYTurf.com’s Google Map mash-up of the Subways and the PATH train. The popular site receivers over 2000 hits daily and has been the best source for all your directional needs and one of the most visually appealing Google mash ups around. [...]

As political leanings go, President Bush and I rarely seem eye-to-eye. But this week marked the rare occasion where I could back, at least in part, some of the President’s budget plans. President Bush, you see, has promised $1.3 billion of federal money for the 2nd Ave. subway.
Speaking in New York last week, Bush acknowledged [...]

As The Times called upon Albany to send more money the MTA’s way to bridge the MTA maintenance budget gap, one of New York’s other papers called upon the riders to foot the bill. In an editorial on Saturday that won’t be too popular with the masses, The Post looked at the issues City Comptroller [...]

The City Hall stop, open to Transit Museum members this past weekend, evokes the grandeur of another age. (Courtesy of Triborough on Flickr)
Toward the end of last week, I wrote about the financial troubles of the MTA’s current capital fund. Over the weekend, a more influential voice chimed in as The Times ran an editorial [...]

The 7 line, immortalized by John Rocker, is one of the most popular and important subway lines for the city. It transports hundreds of thousands of passengers from Flushing through Queens into the heart of midtown Manhattan with connections to nearly every other subway line along the way.
And now the MTA will be shutting it [...]

A new entrance at one of the busiest stations in the system is set to open this weekend. Just watch the ice. (Wikipedia.org)
Stories like this one are what make the MTA so damn entertaining. Two years ago, the MTA, with the blessing of Vornado Realty Trust, constructed a new entrance for the uber-busy stop at [...]

The BMT’s Chambers Street is one of many stations badly in need of renovation. (Photo courtesy of NYCsubway.org)
With money tight and an aging system in disrepair, it has been a rough week for the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
The bad news started Wednesday with a report in The Times. Never known for its efficiency in repairs, the [...]

With the promise of free food, WNBC last night lured over 100 New York City bloggers into Studios 6A and 6B at 30 Rock to discuss the future of blogging and television journalist. Set up by Erin Monteiro, the NYC Blogger Summit made for an interesting evening of MSM/Blogosphere mingling. (How much more cliched could [...]