By virtue of its role as one of the world’s largest public transit agencies, the MTA is a very green organization, and now the cash-strapped MTA is looking to capitalize on its negative carbon footprint in an effort to maximize its revenue potential.
Earlier this week, Matthew Sweeney at amNew York broke the story […]
The MTA really likes its surveys these days. The survey-love started out with the subway rider report cards. That project has since taken to the buses as well. And on Wednesday, word came down that the MTA will begin yet another customer survey.
According to this authority’s press release, this latest survey will be distributed […]
Current MTA CEO and Executive Director Elliot Sander was one of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s more prominent appointees. Sander, a celebrated transit expert, replaced a real estate maven and has brought more accountability and responsibility to the MTA.
When Spitzer stepped down, speculation ran rampant through Albany that Gov. David Patterson would […]
Midtown is rather devoid of subway stops for handicapped riders. (Source: Smorgr)
A few months ago, the urban life Website Smogr posted a heavily-edited subway map showing the limited options available to riders of the subway who are faced with limited staircase mobility. Disabled riders have long tried to get their voices heard, and it is […]
The MetroCard is looking a little green lately. (Click the image for a larger view)
Solar-powered subways cars sound similar to that great gag gift the solar-powered flashlight. After all, how could a subway — a train that is, by definition, traveling underground — rely on the sun for power? It doesn’t make sense.
Yet, that’s just […]
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans to move ahead with its institutional initiative information, a consolidation plan designed to eliminate institutional redundancies. Among the plans are agency-wide programs for Accounting, Human Resources, Payroll and Procurement processing that will save the agency $40 million (and, oh yeah, 240 jobs as well). Now if only the New […]
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. […]
After the London Underground bombings in 2005, the MTA ramped up its emergency preparedness. One of their measures included putting around 100 workers in high-volume stations who were in charge solely of emergency procedures should a calamity befall the subway system.
Two years later, these workers have yet to be put to use, and […]
Kings County Supreme Court Judge Bruce Balter has ordered against the Transit Workers Union in their efforts to restore the automatic collection of union dues. The Union lost this right after the illegal strike in 2005, and despite the MTA’s siding on the side of the TWU, the judge would restore the collection without a […]
When, in June, Gov. Eliot Spitzer nominated his friend and donor H. Dale Hemmerdinger to the MTA chair position, the New York State GOP Chair questioned Hemmerdinger’s credentials. While at the time many assumed Joseph N. Mondello’s statements to be typical partisan blustering, Hemmerding’s appearance last week in front of the State Senat Transportation […]
