While services are facing the budget cut, the MTA is hoping to bring some more stations up to date. According to the Daily News’ Pete Donohue, the transportation agency has filed a draft amendment to its capital plan that “includes funds to upgrade communications in 44 subway stations, repair some of the worst station stairwells […]
I’m going to do something I don’t do too often in this space: I’m going to rant about the way the MTA handles train transfers at stations with island platforms. Here we go.
On Tuesday, when I was on the way back to Brooklyn from work, I took a B from West 4th St. to DeKalb […]
When the MTA, in December, announced plans to add more line managers and, seemingly, another layer of bureaucracy to an overburdened agency, I noted that the leadership were staking a lot on this program. Meanwhile, the transit experts did not believe the program would succeed because the line managers wouldn’t have the necessary autonomy.
Well, the […]
The Regional Plan Association loves this idea. (Image from the MTA)
Toward the end of Elliot Sander’s State of the MTA speech yesterday morning, one of the MTA Capital Construction employees sitting near me turned to his friend and laughed off Sander’s “Network Expansion Options” presentation. “It’s good to be a planner,” he said, with a […]
The subways are crowded from any height. (Photo by flickr user allen81)
Subway riders, according to figures released by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is at a 56-year high. As anyone who ever rides the trains could tell you, the subways are indeed crowded.
The MTA’s own press release fills in the details:
The efficiency, value and convenience of […]
After years of strained labor relations, the MTA and the TWU Local 100, the labor union for all the city’s transit workers, are finally working to improve their labor relations. With another round of contract talks due later this year, a panel led by former MTA Chair Richard Ravitch and Hezekiah Brown issued a […]
Earlier this morning, I introduced the Permanent Citizens Adivsory Committee’s annual report by examining their critique of New York City Transit. Let’s take a peak at what the PCAC had to say about the folks upstairs at the MTA>
The Good
The PCAC runs through the typical list of good things at the MTA. They […]
When it comes to subways, the concept of “on time” is a rather amorphous one. Most New Yorkers would consider the subway to be on a time if a train were pulling into a station and getting ready to open its doors right as we were making our way down (or up) the staircase […]
