Needless to say, it is a big weekend for the MTA. At 12:01 a.m. on Sunday morning, the fares go up for the first time in five years. On Monday, MTA CEO Elliot Sander will present the first-ever State of the MTA address. And in between, subway service will be all kinds of screwy.
First, [...]
Back in the dark ages of the New York City subway, before the dawn of the MetroCard, fare hikes were momentous occasions around my house. My parents, who kept 10-packs of tokens in a Keds shoe box, were always prepared to beat the system when the MTA announced higher subway fares.
Unlike with MetroCards where [...]
Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee went down our Nation’s Capital recently and spied a sign extolling the supposedly rat-free environment of the WMATA’s Metro. Her subsequent blog post on City Room about the sign has spurred on a 112-comment debate comparing DC’s Metro to New York’s subway. As I’ve written in the past, I’m no [...]
The MTA, on Wednesday, unveiled a $29.554 billion capital plan designed to cover maintenance, upkeep and system-wide expansions from 2009-2014. The plan, as I noted yesterday, is substantially similar to the broad one the MTA presented to the public in November and would allow for a wide transit expansion in and around the New [...]
Suprise! More on this later, of course, but this completely validates what a few commenters have been saying on this site for a while now. [New York 1]
Back in November, during the MTA’s public engagement workshop in anticipation of the fare hike, Linda Kleinbaum, the MTA deputy executive director for administration, and Ernest Tollerson, the MTA director of policy and media relations, spoke at length about the MTA’s capital future. Today, the MTA will publicly unveil a final version of the [...]
While transit employees are gearing up to field complaints from irate customers next week when the fare hikes go into effect, the MTA has reprogrammed the MetroCard Vending Machines. The hulking beasts that dispense the cards will be automatically programmed to adopt the new fares on Sunday. Anyone want to place bets on the first [...]
December’s groundbreaking ceremony for the 7 Extension may have been a bit premature. (AP Photos)
Ah, remember those glorious days in December when hope sprang eternal and the City and MTA broke ground on the 7 Line Extension?
Let the nostalgia wash over you because here comes the bad news: That 7 Line Extension project — and [...]
The PATH trains, Port Authority’s underground connection from Manhattan to New Jersey, are celebrating their centennial today. As part of the festivities, everyone rides free. So if you’ve never taken a PATH, today just might be your lucky, free day. Maybe one day during the second hundred years, the MTA and PANYNJ can figure out [...]
Stop the presses: I agree with John Liu.
As frequent readers of Second Ave. Sagas will know, I don’t have a very high opinion of John Liu. I think his statements about the MTA often show a misguided sense of direction from the man in charge of the City Council’s transportation committee. And while this [...]
