So you know about this ongoing MetroCard Vending Machine problem, yes? Well, it seems that an encryption device is to blame. This problem, ongoing since Monday, has basically knocked out the MVMs throughout the city, and people have had to resort to cash-based transactions. For those pay-per-riders out there, now would be a good time [...]
With both the City and State of New York facing precarious financial situations and the MTA’s deficit growing, money is tight across the board right now. With David Paterson in power, the MTA may have little choice but to raise fares. Little did we know, earlier this year, just how much Eliot Spitzer’s resignation would [...]
The Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA doesn’t feel that the current MTA Board has enough transit riders on it. To that end, they want to see more commuters on the board. I’m all for it. Who wants to be on the MTA Board?
Tuesday afternoon saw more bad news, in the form of two surveys, head the MTA’s way.
The Straphangers Campaign published the first one — a rigorous scientific survey focusing on the State of the Subways. As I mentioned yesterday afternoon, the L and 7 trains — the two trains operating as guinea pigs for [...]
The venerable Straphangers Campaign released its annual State of the Subway survey results this afternoon, and the results are, in a word, shocking. The L train has been ranked as the best subway line in the city. Never mind that the trains are packed like sardines and often suffer through slow rush hour trips; the [...]
Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn-based assemblyman, and Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, both have fielded their fair share of constituent complaints about the state of the subway infrastructure. So they took matters into their own hands and examined 100 subway stations throughout the city. According to a report the two plan to release later today, [...]
Thirty years ago, when the ten-year-old MTA was facing a subway crisis, New York turned to Richard Ravitch to step in and save a decaying and unsafe system. Now, the 40-year-old MTA, suffering from the same economy slump affecting Americans the country over, has once again turned to Richard Ravitch to revive and revitalize [...]
New York City Transit tried to sneak this by us, but we caught them anyway: While they publicly unveiled a whole bunch of service upgrades this past weekend, a few additions didn’t hit the wires until late this weekend. The transit authority has increased the frequency of service along the 1, 4, 6 and 42nd [...]
For much of the morning, New York City Transit had a service alert warning of congestion on the 7 line. I wonder if the additional service was responsible for this morning’s delays. The MTA added more express trains and 14 more round trips on the IRT Flushing line, and today was the first weekday with [...]
Hot on the heels of last week’s fare hike brouhaha, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has announced an upcoming audit of the MTA’s books.
The audit, first reported on Sunday morning by The New York Post, should be completedwithin the next few months, and DiNapoli’s office plans to release a preliminary report in September, [...]
