Theodore Kheel, the 93-year-old public advocate with a lot of money and a hate of traffic, unveiled his much-anticipated transit fare-congestion pricing report on Thursday. The report — entitled Balancing: Free Transit and Congestion Pricing in New York City — is the culmination of an 11-month, $100,000 effort funded by Kheel.
The plan itself [...]
Ted Kheel, the 93-year-old public advocate, has unveiled the $100,000 plan he funded to advocate for free transit. Unfortunately, I don’t have time right now to really drill down on the 55-page report, but it’s a good plan. I was originally skeptical, but now I think it can work. The short of it: Kheel was [...]
New York City Transit and Bloomingdale’s are gearing up for a Friday ribbon cutting ceremony. After extensive renovations, the subway entrance from the 59th St. stop that leads into the men’s department at the Midtown department store will reopen tomorrow. As the old saying goes, “All Cars Transfer to Bloomingdale’s.” [PR Newswire]
I’ve been getting a little wonky around these parts lately. After the fare hike to-do last month, transit news has slowed down a bit, and I promise that a few lighthearted posts are in the chute. For now, keep on indulging me, and good times — as well as a fare hike — are [...]
Let’s pretend it’s the middle of December, about 24-48 before everyone heads out of work for a ten-day vacation. Would you say that’s a good time to drop a major technological upgrade onto expectant customers?
Of course not. But you don’t work at the MTA.
Shortly before the Christmas holidays, the MTA unveiled its new mobile [...]
Clyde Haberman, writing his NYC column in The Times, argues that the City shouldn’t rename the Triborough Bridge after Robert F. Kennedy. I agree. Interestingly, Haberman proposes naming the bridge after Andrew Haswell Green, a 19th-century urban planning who has been nearly completely overshadowed by Robert Moses. [The New York Times]
After years of strained labor relations, the MTA and the TWU Local 100, the labor union for all the city’s transit workers, are finally working to improve their labor relations. With another round of contract talks due later this year, a panel led by former MTA Chair Richard Ravitch and Hezekiah Brown issued a [...]
With MLK Day on Monday, NYCT is running trains on a Sunday schedule but without the service advisories. Plan accordingly.
Without further ado, the weekend service advisories.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, January 19, to 5 a.m. Monday, January 21, 1 trains skip 28th, 23rd, and 18th Streets in both directions due to Part Authority work on the [...]
Around these parts, we’ve known for a while that service changes were heading the G train’s way. Earlier this week, the MTA made it officially, and the changes are rather extensive to the much-maligned train.
Of course, as with anything MTA, the changes come with the good and the bad. The Daily News reported on [...]
Earlier this morning, I introduced the Permanent Citizens Adivsory Committee’s annual report by examining their critique of New York City Transit. Let’s take a peak at what the PCAC had to say about the folks upstairs at the MTA>
The Good
The PCAC runs through the typical list of good things at the MTA. They [...]
