On and off over the last few weeks, I’ve questioned the delays in implementation the MTA has faced as the agency has tried to implement its long-overdue security plan. While Homeland Security has funneled more money toward the MTA, the reality is that the MTA’s $1.1 billion plan to secure the subways is short [...]

I have a soft spot for the New York City condoms. One of my first posts back in January of 2007 tied together subway lines with themed condoms and helped propel me to Internet stardom. It is with a heavy heart that I post the news then that New York City has redesigned their themed [...]

Stand clear of platform edge. It’s more than just a good idea.
One down — literally; 467 more to go.
In the wake of the public outcry over the collapsing platform at Kings Highway, MTA New York City Transit President Howard Roberts ordered a complete inspection of every station platform in the New York City subway system. [...]

For all the grief I give the MTA and New York City Transit for their in-system technology problems, the agency has made a real effort to improve their digital presence since the August flood knocked out its Website. Yesterday, New York City Transit unveiled a series of improvements to its Trip Planner designed to further [...]

The platform at 7th Ave. on the Brighton line has seen better days. (Photo by Benjamin Kabak)
When the MTA warns you to stand back from the platform edge, it’s usually because the agency doesn’t want its passengers struck by oncoming trains. But an accident at Kings Highway gives a whole new meaning to that familiar [...]

In the midst of the first snow storm this winter, an anonymous transit rider writes in to Second Ave. Sagas:
Did you notice the performance of MTA buses during today’s snowstorm? It was an embarrassment. The relatively new flexible buses had chains on the rear tires, but the fronts of the buses aren’t heavy enough to [...]

A D train at the tail end of rush hour was delayed this morning when a dog got loose in one of the subway cars. That would annoy me to no end, and I can’t imagine that these good folks would have been too amused either. Lease your dogs in the subway. [City Room]

Via the AMNY Subway Tracker blog comes news that film crews for the upcoming Tony Scott remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three are scouting for locations. The crews, according to transit officials, stopped by the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station yesterday, probably to inspect the abandoned outer platforms that have long been used as movie [...]

Yup. There’s that dome again. (Source: MTA Capital Construction)
Add Lower Manhattan residents to that ever-growing list of New Yorkers annoyed at the plans to overhaul the Fulton St. Transit Hub. They join the displaced merchants as everyone tries to finger the MTA for this misguided plan’s shortcomings.
On Monday night, residents of Community Board 1 gathered [...]

A sympathy piece in this week’s New York Magazine details how businesses along the Second Ave. Subway construction zone are suffering. It’s tale we’ve heard before, and while I’m sympathetic to the plight of these business owners and encourage the MTA to fairly compensate them, I can’t oppose one project that stands to benefits hundreds [...]