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Nearly 80 percent of subway escalators and elevators don’t receive necessary...
The reason behind the incessant breakdown of the subway’s escalators and elevators? Nearly 80 percent of them do not receive the necessary maintenance by the MTA. After an 18-month audit, City...
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Check out the MTA’s armored money train that ran from 1951 to 2006
In order to collect fares from various stations, the MTA created a special armored train that moved all the subway and bus fares collected to a secret room at 370 Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn. As...
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MTA announces six-point plan to combat subway delays and improve service
After a week full of delays and malfunctions, the MTA has announced a six-point plan to address the subway’s chronic service problems. The agency’s plan will increase testing of tracks and signals,...
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Costly and inefficient construction is causing NYC’s subway system to lag...
As the nation’s largest transit system, the New York City subway helps connect millions of people to its five far-reaching boroughs each day. While it has helped shaped the city’s indisputable wealth,...
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Second Avenue Subway ridership continues to grow; MTA to add more trains
Just a month after opening on the first of the year, the Second Avenue Subway had eased congestion on the Lexington line by 11 percent. Now, nearly five months in, that figure has more than doubled,...
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The ‘map distance’ vs. the ‘geographic distance’ of the NYC subway
The NYC subway map tidily lays out over 665 miles of track and 472 stations into a simple, easy-to-read design. While the map gives the impression that our fair city’s transit system is orderly and...
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Governor Cuomo and the MTA announce a competition to fix the NYC subway system
Seeking innovative solutions to fix the mess that is the New York City transit system, Governor Cuomo on Tuesday launched a competition called the “MTA Genius Transit Challenge.” Just one of the...
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Despite revised capital plan, MTA does not increase spending for subway...
While just a few days ago Governor Cuomo announced his “aggressive” action plan to combat the chronic problems of the city’s subway service, the MTA’s new version of its capital plan released Wednesday...
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Ahead of L train shutdown, developers flock to properties along G, J, M and Z...
In response to the looming 15th-month L train shutdown, which will affect its nearly 225,000 daily riders beginning April 2019, real estate developers have started looking at Williamsburg’s hip and...
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Is the C train the root of the NYC’s subway problems?
There’s plenty of blame to go around when it comes to the chronic failures of the NYC subway system, from the lack of funds to the lack of leadership. But now the latest piece of the MTA to get finger...
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The MTA considers a ‘car-free busway’ as L-train alternative
To mitigate the nightmare commuters will face during the 15-month L-train shutdown, the MTA and the Department of Transportation presented four possible alternatives that would make a portion of 14th...
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De Blasio denies funding half-priced MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers
Despite months of lobbying efforts by transit advocates and public officials, Mayor de Blasio declined to fund a $50 million program for half-price MetroCards for low-income riders. The mayor has...
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MTA dismisses idea to extend G train into Manhattan during L train shutdown
Republican mayoral candidate, Paul Massey, unveiled a transit infrastructure plan Monday, that included an idea to create a G train loop that would travel to Manhattan to help commuters during the 15...
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LIRR will offer discounted fares for riders using Atlantic Terminal and...
This week, Governor Cuomo called on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to provide Long Island Rail Road riders a discounted fare for “enduring the inconvenience of a disrupted commute.” In...
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Recent breakdown spurs demand for better subway escape plans
After experiencing a big dose of the NYC “train pain” that seems to be reaching epidemic proprtions lately, subway passenger Michael Sciaraffo has launched a campaign against the MTA for what he feels...
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In the 20th century, the subway system used professional sniffers to keep New...
The city’s subways of today have machines that can test air samples and look for potentially dangerous gas build-up or biological and chemical agents. However, before such technology was invented, the...
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17-stop outer borough light rail proposed as a NYC subway alternative
While pols and officials twiddle their thumbs and shift blame for the subway system’s current state of chaos, the Regional Planning Association (RPA) and Rockefeller Foundation are actively looking for...
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Overcrowding and ‘dwell time’ are why NYC’s subway system is failing
It seems every day brings New Yorkers new subway drama, train delays and disappointment. While this week’s A-train derailment, which injured dozens of people, is being blamed on human error, not a...
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Cuomo declares a ‘state of emergency’ for the NYC subway, gives MTA $1B for...
During a press conference Thursday, Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and announced that he would sign an executive order to expedite the...
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VIDEOS: Watch footage from the Third Avenue El train’s last days in 1955
As a solution to Manhattan’s rapid population growth and street congestion in the late 1800s, railroad companies decided to better serve their passengers by elevating the trains above ground....
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