Before I jump into the service advisories for the weekend, I wanted to remind you all of the importance of June 30. After Monday, all One-Day Unlimited Ride Metrocards purchased prior to the fare hike will expire.
For those who stockpiled MetroCards, this month was the drop-dead point. Thirty-day cards had to be activated by [...]
Before we get to the service advisories, let’s laugh one more time this week at the MTA Board. While David Mack has been utterly shamed into dropping his opposition to the free MTA Board perks, Chair Dale Hemmerdinger received a little bit of bad press today.
I’ll let Metro’s Patrick Arden explain the story:
The MTA played [...]
Updating the weekend service advisories, the MTA notes that from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, Saturday, June 14, L trains are running every 24 minutes between Broadway Junction and Rockaway Pkwy. That’s a long wait.
Earlier this week, we took a brief look at the Ravitch Commission. The 12 members tasked with saving the MTA are all highly-regarded transit and finance experts who will do their best to find the money to keep our trains running.
Today, Streetsblog lets us in a not-so-secret secret: A fair number of the commission members [...]
As the Daily News reports, power outages in Brooklyn and a smoke situation at 59th St. is disrupting subway travel between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The MTA has service advisories on the 2, 3, 4, F and G lines, and riders are urged to seek alternate routes right now. Keep your eye on this MTA service [...]
Ah, the weekend. With 96-degree weather on tap and a few days of sunshine, it will be nice for all of us cubicle dwellers to get out in the sun for a few days. The subways are, of course, chock full o’ service changes, but before we get to those, let’s recap the week that [...]
Earlier this week, the MTA started asking bus riders in Manhattan to grade the borough’s bus system. I’ve written in the past about how I feel this is an exercise in futility, but the MTA wants to see the cold, hard proof.
So get out there, folks. Grade your bus line. Tell New York City [...]
Aren’t three-day weekends the best? Memorial Day certainly ranks up there. It’s the unofficial start of summer, and we’re getting some warm weather.
I’ll be out of town through Monday evening, but if you’re around this weekend, there’s a good subway-related event for you to check out. Ryan, a Second Ave. Sagas reader, e-mailed me [...]
For baseball fans in New York, this is as big a weekend as any three-game set in May can be. The Yankees and Mets square off for city-wide bragging rights in a three-game set in the Bronx.
This year, the two New York teams are decidedly mediocre, and both are coming off of weeks [...]
If the circumstances are right, it’s always tempting to jump the turnstiles underground. No one’s around; it’s late at night; and the turnstiles are giving back one of those annoying “Just Used” messages on a card that wasn’t used.
That, at least, is what my friend Sam thought when he and his buddy tried to navigate [...]
