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A Viable Subway Alternative? Last week on the NBC Bay Area blog, on the heels of the resolution of a labor dispute between the BART administration and labor workers, Owen Thomas asked how San Francisco would be different today if the BART system were never constructed...
At an appearance before the press yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg announced 33 changes that he would like to see implemented by the MTA in upcoming months, a move that the New York Times is pegging as an “odd” first proposal in the Mayor’s campaign for re-election. The...
Today, I continue the three-part series on the Future of the MetroCard. Yesterday, in Part 1, I outlined the benefits of smart cards. Today, we focus on the deficiencies of the current MetroCard. Thank you all for yesterday’s excellent comments — please, keep them coming! P...
This morning, I am starting a three-part series on the Future of the MetroCard and smart card technology...
Hi everyone. While Ben is out of town on a well deserved break, Jeremy and I will do our best to keep the website in service over the next week. Let’s see if it’s still up and running when he returns. ...
Guest-blogging will continue this week at Second Avenue Sagas. Replacing Ben are Bill Boyer and myself, Jeremy Steinemann. Bill and I will be playing tag-team from Monday to Friday. Expect some excellent posts on the history and future of the subway system, as well as the usual news coverage...
Aubrey Boyce, a subway collection agent from Kew Gardens, has won $133 million in the Mega Millions jackpot, the New York Daily News reported today...
Since I take the subway instead of driving, I don’t get road rage – but, occasionally, I get ’subway rage.’ I’m going to list a couple of the things that make me the most crazy on the subway, and I want to hear from you guys in the comments about your own mass transit pet peeves: People having lo...
Live from Israel where even in the small city of Haifa they have physically separated bus lanes, it’s the weekend service advisories. These are directly cut-and-pasted from the MTA’s email. Be sure to verify all changes before heading underground. 24 From 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m. Sa...
Quinnipiac University has conducted a poll about New York City urban life. Here are some of the transit-related tidbits: 58 percent of respondents like the new pedestrian mall on Broadway between Times and Herald Squares...
For those of you who are on Twitter, there are now Twitter accounts for mass transit lines and highways throughout New York state, including the New York City subway. There’s a full index of accounts here. ...
While a part of the Albany compromise for the MTA bailout included a freeze on fare hikes until 2011, the whispers of an unplanned fare hike swirled amidst stories of the MTA’s poor fiscal state. Today, though, the agency put these rumors to bed with a release of its preliminary financial plan. ...
According to the New York Daily News, a straphanger snapped a photograph of a young boy apparently conducting a Lexington-line train...
Hi, everyone. My name is Lilit Marcus and I’ll be doing some guest posts over the next couple of days while Benjamin is away. My normal home is over at Save the Assistants, but I’m happy to have the opportunity to branch out a little bit. As...
Late last week, New York Magazine’s Sam Jewler and I exchanged a few e-mails about the history of the Second Ave. Subway. What emerged was this very thorough timeline designed to complement the timeline on my site. As you can see, it is a rather dubious timeline, filled with stops and starts. ...
