Brooklyn Division Bus proposal
Similar topic as Queens Division Bus proposal I had looked over my transit app, and I had not found any buses plying along Bushwick Avenue. B39, currently serving Manhattan stops, needs an extension to...
View ArticleEssex Union Light Rail New Ideas
So I Couldn't Find The Old Post I Made A Few Months Ago Or The Original Schedules So I Decide To Let You Guys Add Ideas To This Essex Union Light Rail Thing. So Lets Start Off With The Number Of LRVs...
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Track All Trains In Real Time!
Since the MTA isn't taking the effort to make real time data available for the or any other line other than the ones that are already available, transit is allowing users to crowdsource their data via...
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The MTA has decided to raise subway fare to $3
The MTA has decided to raise subway fare to $3 By Will Pulos Posted: Thursday January 19 2017, 4:04pm Photograph: Shutterstock Second Avenue Subways and light-up bridges aren’t going to pay for...
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Express N tunnel will shut for one year of emergency repairs
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/4/br-express-subway-tunnel-collapsing-2017-01-27-bk.html Express N tunnel will shut for one year of emergency repairs Marc A. Hermann Going dark: The...
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Potential M79 SBS Implementation and Q52 Extension
http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/170123_1030_Transit.pdf 1. M79 Implementation (Pages 117-121) Implement M79 Select Bus Service (SBS) on 79th Street in Manhattan replacing M79 local service...
View ArticleArthur Kill station opening TOMMOROW to little fanfare.
New Arthur Kill Station Effective 5 AM Saturday, January 21, 2017 The Arthur Kill Station represents a modern upgrade to the Staten Island Railway system, as well as our efforts to continually improve...
View ArticleNew South Ferry station to reopen in June
The new South Ferry station that was heavily damaged by salt water during Hurricane Sandy is going to be reopened in June....
View ArticleTrump is set to remove almost ALL transit funding.
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/01/19/trumps-first-budget-may-zero-out-federal-transit-funding/ Donald Trump’s first budget will follow a blueprint for extreme spending cuts laid out by the Heritage...
View ArticleLIRR and Metro-North Railroad Break Ridership Records
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced that Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad are seeing record ridership numbers, with LIRR carrying 89.3 million customers in 2016, a...
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5 Trains on the 7th Av Line...
Is there a reason trains on the 7th Av Line are identified as instead of trains (i.e. is the service change I'd determined immediately before 149th/Concourse; labor rules, auditing/accounting, etc)? I...
View ArticleSubway Service is Slipping, Causing Concern Among Transit Advocates and even...
Subway Service is Slipping, Causing Concern Among Transit Advocates and even MTA Board Members By Jose Martinez Monday, January 23, 2017 at 09:48 PM EST A troubling trend in the city's subways has...
View ArticleRockville Centre Depot Closing?
http://www.liherald.com/stories/A-costly-depot-closing,86961 Interesting.
View ArticleForeign Language Instructions on SBS Machines
I have noticed that SBS machines have instructions posted in both English & Spanish, with the ones for Q44 having Chinese & Korean as well (due to the fact that Q44 traverses through...
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Planned MTA elevator will cause car wrecks, panel says
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to remove a lane from Fourth Avenue in order to build a long-awaited elevator to the 86th Street subway station, but members of Community Board 10 say...
View ArticleCommunity Board 10 demands shuttle buses for Bay Ridge Av closure
*sigh* The Metropolitan Transportation Authority must provide shuttle buses for weekday commuters while it closes three subway stations, including Bay Ridge Avenue, for six months of renovations,...
View ArticleCell service in the tunnels
Although officially there is no service in the tunnels I have been able to send texts load some apps and other stuff in some tunnels.Anyone else having that luck?
View ArticleEast Side Access Project Discussion
I heard about the LIRR East Side Access Project. According to the MTA, East Side Access will give people around 40 minutes of their time back instead of many commuters who live on the east side having...
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MTA holds out hope for more buses
MTA holds out hope for more buses Posted January 26, 2017 Women wait for a bus at a stop on Riverdale Avenue on a rainy afternoon on Jan. 24. Commuters complain bus service is unreliable, but the MTA...
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