Finally - finally - after a long Halt the Hike campaign that blended journalism and public advocacy reporting, the Daily News has produced a story that shows the deep-rooted institutional problems inherit in the MTA.
As part of a special I-Team investigation, Benjamin Lesser and Greg B. Smith report on rampant bureaucratic redundancy and overspending [...]
The MTA today announced plans to spend $1.3 million in an effort to computerize their elevator and escalator outage system. Their current system — which relies on input for notoriously unreliable station workers — does a fairly bad job of tracking outages among the system’s 158 elevators and 169 escalators. The MTA board will vote [...]
At the end of the day on Friday — always an odd time to make a major announcement — the MTA announced increased service at all times along the L and 7, their two favorite test lines. This move came in response to the subpar scores these lines received on their Rider Report Cards. [...]
Before getting to the record low two weekend service changes, let’s journey down to Washington, D.C. for a brief jaunt. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority just unveiled one whopper of a fare hike, and it certainly makes you appreciative of the inevitable fare that the MTA’s board will pass next week.
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When it rains bad news, it pours for the MTA. Hot the heels of this whole fare hike mess comes the MTA’s Office of the Inspector General, an independent state-run, investigative and audit unit tasked with keeping an eye on the MTA. All things considered, they do a fairly terrible job. Just ask the [...]
The WMATA’s board voted today to raise fares for the D.C. Metro. The increases are very substantial with the rush hour base fare increasing by 22 percent and the maximum fare going up by nearly 16 percent. It certainly makes our upcoming fare hike pale in comparison. More on this story later. [Washington Post]
Somehow, someway, the 500-pound, 7-foot tall number 8 that will be part of the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square is taking the subway from the Bronx to 42nd Street. According to Alex at Subchat, the 8 will take the 6 from Elder Ave. to 59th St. and switch to a southbound N, R [...]
Subway trash sits idly at Coney Island. (Photo by flickr user Martin Deutsch)
I find the two cleanliness categories to be among the more amusing aspects of the Rider Report Cards. Riders have continually ranked station cleanliness concerns as the fifth or sixth most important issue, and the grades are repeated C-minuses or D-pluses.
Of course, [...]
This afternoon, someone landed on Second Ave. Sagas by Googling are subways in ny running on christmas day. I’m the second hit, and now I’m here to answer that question. Yes, New York is no second-rate city. Our subways run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and that’s what makes them great.
