The MTA has announced special travel plans for Thanksgiving day, but when you put the pieces together, it doesn’t add up. First, New York City Transit will be operating on a Sunday schedule. That means less frequent service and no trains on the weekday, peak-hour lines (B, V, W, etc.).
But on the other hand, [...]
Last night, someone using Google came across Second Ave. Sagas by searching for “how to take the r train from the bronx.” Considering that the R runs from Queens into Manhattan, south along Broadway and then into Brooklyn, you’re going to be waiting an awfully long time if you’re trying to get the R in [...]
The news flew fast and furious yesterday following the Spitzer press conference and the MTA’s announcement that they would be scaling back the fare hike. When the dust settled, Elizabeth Benjamin at The Daily News’ Daily Politics blog came away with steller coverage. She had three posts — here, here and here — with [...]
In a surprising turn of events, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced plans to scale back the proposed fare hike. The announcement, coming on the heals of a call from New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer, lessens the fare burden carried by the millions of New Yorkers who rely on the subway each day.
The [...]
In the wake of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s comments against the fare hike, the MTA has announced a plan to reduce the fare hike from its current proposal. The Authority will put together a fare-hike restructuring plan in advance of next month’s MTA Board meeting. More on this breaking story shortly. [MTA Press Release]
It’s the season of fare hike grandstanding for public officials. Yesterday, Andrew Saul, MTA Vice Chair and Republican Congressional hopeful, announced his politically expedient opposition to the fare hike. Today, our embattled Governor Eliot Spitzer has done the same. While this seems like a move to shore up his waning popularity, Spitzer is employing [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I covered the MTA’s announcement of a $1.3-billion federal grant for the Second Ave. subway with a look at how we’re simply repeating the past here. The Second Ave. subway’s tortured history is filled with federal grants that have never turned into a physical subway line.
But this time, as one commenter [...]
There’s an old saying in New York, “Everything new is old again.” And today’s announcement concerning the $1.3 billion heading the MTA’s way for the Second Ave. Subway certainly fits that bill.
First, the news, courtesy of William Neuman and The New York Times:
The long-dreamed-of Second Avenue subway will take another important step toward becoming [...]
Anyone else wary of the way this whole Moberg-Hayton subway romance is shaking down? Was it all just a publicity stunt? Despite promising never to talk about it in public again, Moberg and his Australian belle have appeared on the morning TV shows, and the media-savvy Internet Romeo is now shopping the movie rights to [...]
Andrew Saul is the Vice Chairman of the MTA Board. As such, you would imagine that Mr. Saul cares deeply about the upcoming fare hike. You may even believe that Mr. Saul would go out of his way to attend the fare hike meetings. And you would be wrong.
Saul, we learned last week, was [...]
