The 2005 transit strike will forever mar Peter Kalikow’s MTA tenure. (Photo courtesy of flickr user NYC Comets)
On Monday, we came to celebrate Peter Kalikow (with a little urging from the MTA’s press department). On Tuesday, we come to bury him.
As Kalikow prepares to leave his post as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, [...]

The Peter Kalikow Resignation saga is finally drawing to a close. The outgoing MTA Chairman announced today that he would resign as soon as New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer names his retirement, The Times’ Empire Zone blog reported today.
Kalikow, the chair since 2001, was appointed to a new six-year term last year, but [...]

Bad news for the MTA. A group of current and former Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers are suing the MTA. They allege what The New York Times said is “a deeply rooted culture of discrimination against black and Hispanic officers.”
According to reports, the ten officers claim that minority officers are denied promotions and overtime [...]

The Mayor’s PLANYC2030 calls for an $8 congestion tax for cars enterting Manhattan’s Central Business District between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. during the week.
Woah, baby. If you think the Red Sox and Yankee fans have it out for each other, wait until the congestion fee foes start taking on the proponents of Mayor Bloomberg’s [...]

Dignitaries head to a groundbreaking inside the tunnel for which ground was supposed to be broken. Or something like that. (Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times).
So is it still a groundbreaking ceremony on the fourth try? Should we celebrate and pat ourselves in the back? Well, of course, we should! This is New [...]

In a move that shocks no one, MTA CEO Elliot “Lee” Sander named Howard Roberts the new head of New York City Transit. Roberts’ nomination became official after rumors, reported here on March 30, emerged that Sander was looking to pick his old boss for this position.
“We interviewed many exceptional candidates from around the [...]

Since I couldn’t find a picture of Howard Roberts, enjoy this neat photo of an old Redbird up on blocks. (Courtesy of Michael Pompili at NYCSubway.org)
At the end of last week, I slipped in the item that MTA CEO Elliot “Lee” Sander” will nominate former MTA exec Howard Roberts as the next president of New [...]

For the last 11 months, New York City Transit has been under the leadership of interim president Millard “Butch” Seay. Since Lawrence “I have no nickname” Reuter stepped down last April, no permanent replacement had been named. But now reports say that MTA CEO Elliot “Lee” Sander is ready to name a new NYCT [...]

Remember away back in November when MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow announced he would step down? It sure does seem like a long time.
Four months ago, Kalikow was ready to step down “by the second quarter of 2007,” according to the reports. The new Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer clearly wanted someone in the MTA chairmanship [...]

Any politician worth his or her weight in savviness knows that the best way to counter bad news is with great news. So taking a page from the “Oops, an attorney general scandal; let’s raise the terror alert level” playback, that’s just what the MTA did today.
The bad news was swirling on Tuesday. A [...]