Well, grades for the 5 train are out, and guess what? Yet another C-minus for the MTA.
The 5 - the lesser half of the duo that makes up the Lexington Ave. express - runs from the Bronx into Brooklyn at rush hour and terminates at Bowling Green all other times during its run. It [...]
Over the last few years, as gentrification and population expansion have spread eastward into Queens and Williamsburg, the 7 and L trains have become notoriously overcrowded. Blogs wrote about it; newspapers wrote about it; heck, even the MTA knew about it. But not until those two lines received bad grades (7, L), in the [...]
This fare hike sure is growing into one contentious issue, and everyday, it seems, more and more news hits the airwaves. Today, the news is big: A group of New York politicians and interest groups issued a joint statement urging the MTA to hold off on the fare hike until April 15 at the [...]
Over the last few months, the Department of Transportation has engaged in a series of initiatives to make New York City’s streets more pedestrian- and biker-friendly. They’ve put in a nifty bike lane on Ninth Ave. and are currently spearheading a much-needed renovation of the Grand Army Plaza disaster. But I have to wonder [...]
How did we miss this story for so many weeks? According to a report by Jeremy Olshan in The Post, the MTA’s fare hike leaves subway riders footing a higher percentage increase than drivers using the MTA Bridge and Tunnel tolls. In the era of the congestion fee and an increased call for traffic [...]
This morning, during the piece on the shakey future of Transit Wireless, I teased you all with promises of some ridiculous stories about subway cell service. Well, wait no longer because here they are.
First up is Councilman Oliver Koppel, a Democrat from the Bronx. Mr. Koppel wants promises of cell-phone-free subway cars. I’ll give [...]
At the end of September, the MTA and Transit Wireless announced a multi-million-dollar deal that would usher in the age of cell phones in the subway. Since these two groups completed their 10-year deal, things were silent on the cell phone front, but this past weekend witnessed a flurry of news — one good, [...]
Aaron Naparstek over at Streets blog caught this photo — this fantastic photo — and posted about it on Thursday. It just seems to summarize the MTA.
The Authority has a nifty little way of designing their Public Hearing notices. The notices, which you can see here as a MTA, use vertical letters rotated 90 degrees [...]
Guess what? Another subway grade came out today, and you’ll never believe what riders gave to the Eastern Parkway Express. That ol’ green 4 train got, you guessed it, yet another C grade. It’s the fourth C or C- in the MTA’s long trek toward mediocrity.
For the 4 line, over 4200 riders responded to [...]
No, that’s not a Wachovia ad; it’s a hyrbrid bus. (Photo by Librado Romero/The New York Times)
The New York City buses are the under-appreciated and oft-maligned part of the City’s vibrant public transportation network. Some people swear by the bus system, especially those that run crosstown, while others bemoan the slower-than-walking speeds and unreliable service [...]
