After a few false hopes focusing around the MTA’s communication gap, how, we’re talkin’. Just two days after the MTA announced the new Know Before You Go! program, New York City Transit has unveiled a mobile version of its popular trip planner site. This mobile version, which is available online at http://tripplanner.mta.info/mobile/ and still […]
Eric the Beehive Hairdresser noted that the MTA’s Rider Report Cards have a section in written Yiddish for those who still rely on this rare but ancient mix of Germanic Hebrew. Eric also asks the age old question: “Would a Metrocard fair hike have you verklempt?” Yes, it would. [Beehivehairdresser.com]
Oh, the New York City buses. They’re great for getting around the city unless you’re actually trying to get somewhere fast. Today, the Straphangers Campaign, the public transportation riders advocacy group, reinforced that age-old New York stereotype in awarding its annual Pokey and Schleppie Awards.
This year, the M23 took home the Golden Snail, the […]
These marathoners don’t get to enjoy the use of a Metrocard during Sunday’s race. (Photo courtesy of Action Cancer)
In 2006, New York Post transit beat writer Jeremy Olshan ran the New York City marathon in four hours and fifty-five minutes. Last week, Olshan tackled a different kind of marathon: He rode the course of the […]
In response to those Rider Report Cards, today marked the first day of the expanded service on the L train. While the Internet’s most vocal critic of the L train was too busy celebrating in Denver, others in Brooklyn and Manhattan enjoyed increased service in an effort to ease overcrowding on one of the MTA’s […]
When torrential rain knocked out the subways in August, the MTA’s communications problems were laid bare for all to see. The station agents and other MTA employees, we learned, didn’t really know what to do, and the MTA’s servers couldn’t handle the crush of people looking for information about the subways.
Well, last week, the […]
As the fare hike debate heats up, let’s take a second to ponder something. What if the MTA pushed off this fare hike and never received the money that Richard Brodsky is attempting to bring to the Authority? What if the MTA slid further into debt?
Well, first, we would basically be reliving the 1970s […]
Continuing the grand tradition of C-range grades from the Rider Report Card, the M - that rarely-used Nassau Street Local - received a C-minus from its riders. One day, the MTA will break this stretch of C grades, and we will celebrate.
The lonely M with just 75 riders on Facebook’s Subway Status application is […]
The MTA hopes to win a Nobel Prize for its efforts in combating greenhouse gas emissions. (Photo courtesy of flickr user mss2400)
In the spring of 2004, around the time that the global warming/hybrid car craze really took off, for a class about automobiles, I wrote a paper proposing that taxi cabs in New York City […]
SUBWAYblogger takes a look at the salaries of various MTA employees today. His conclusion: The MTA pays those TWU members a lot more than the NYPD pays its rookie cops. But wouldn’t you rather have a cleaner subway than a safer one? Yeah, me neither. [SUBWAYblogger]
