A $250 Fine for Jaywalking is Ridiculous and What We Really Should Be Doing
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View ArticleTransferring between Metro-North lines
I am trying to figure out something... I need to use the New Haven Line and want to avoid the additional cost of getting it from Grand Central. The question is the following: If you were traveling...
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Officials Call for Better Bus Service to Douglaston, Queens
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There’s a new push to improve bus service in the Douglaston section of Queens. Federal, state and city officials gathered at a bus stop at Douglaston Parkway and 65th Avenue on...
View ArticleMetro-North worker accused of performing lewd act on sleeping woman aboard train
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (PIX11) – A Metro-North worker has been accused of committing a lewd act on a woman aboard a train Tuesday morning. The woman, who dozed off aboard the 7:35 a.m. train from Grand...
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Homeless Man Awarded $1.9 Million After Getting Hit By Subway Train
A homeless man who wandered onto subway tracks has been awarded $1.9 million after a jury found the York City Transit Authority 40% at fault in an accident that severed the man's foot. Robert Obey's...
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Prepare For Packed LIRR Tonight Thanks To Dozens Of Canceled Trains
If you're heading to Penn Station tonight, here's some exciting news to jazz you up for the evening commute: the Long Island Rail Road plans to cancel about 19 eastbound trains tonight, after a cable...
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The Largest Free Mass Transit Experiment in the World
TALLINN, Estonia — Last January, Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, did something that no other city its size had done before: It made all public transit in the city free for residents. City...
View ArticleFire guts HART bus (Tampa,Florida)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/fire/fire-guts-hart-bus-on-i-75-near-gibsonton/2162859 This is 2004 Gillig Low Floor #2416
View ArticleLynx Employee- 40 Years of Service
Lynx pays tribute to Wallace Flowers, who's been with Lynx since 1974 (two years after it started up under Orange-Seminole-Osceola Transportation Authority or OSOTA). He will retire tomorrow. Thank...
View ArticlePossible Extension of Shore Line East and MBTA to Westerly and Kingston?
Recently, I've been reading on the web about the Rhode Island State Planning Council considering an extension of MBTA's Providence line to Kingston and Westerly along with new stations. They are also...
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Turnstile malfunction
I've noticed on a few occasions last week that when trying to swipe my Metrocard at a turnstile, the entire row of turnstiles weren't working. This happened Monday at Times Square near 40th street....
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Man shoots up Brooklyn bus after rider doesn’t give him money Read more:...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – A man shot up a Brooklyn bus, injuring one, after a rider refused to give him money Friday morning. Cops say the dispute began just before 10 a.m. on the B12 bus at East New...
View ArticleTriboro (RX) News?
Are there plans to create this Triboro (RX) at some point within the next 20 years? Or are the Triboro (RX) plans on the back burner indefinitely like so many other subway expansion plans?
View ArticleIRT AC retrofit
I once read somewhere that some of the IRT rolling stock was retrofitted with air conditioning between 1973 and 1983. If true, can anyone confirm this? Unfortunately, I don't remember the source, but...
View Article30th Anniversary of the Grumman Flexible being pulled off NYC streets
This Saturday, February 8th will marked the 30th Anniversity of the Grumman Flexible buses being pulled off the streets of NYC for the last time. In addition, on February 3rd also marks the 30th...
View ArticleReports of Broken B44 SBS Ticket Machines...
...all the ones at Church Ave (southbound) have been broken for a few weeks. There was also this post about DeKalb Ave (Kosciusko St): http://www.subchat.com/buschat/read.asp?Id=289679 What a pain....
View ArticleOpinion: Weinstein Need to Leave
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2014/02/2014_super_bowl_this_should_be.html#incart_m-rpt-1 He really need to go. he really starting to show slackness in getting good service.
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Running the (2) via the (5) line
So apparently last night there were signal problems on the 7th Avenue line. Seems like every Monday there's a problem with that line... What I didn't get was that the seemed to be running fairly...
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Super Bowl train chaos exposes ill-planning by NFL, NY/NJ authorities
It's never a good sign when Eric Grubman, who is basically the NFL’s crisis manager, shows up at the day-after Super Bowl news conference. Unfortunately for the league, he has become a regular. The...
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MTA Unveils New Round of Subway Art Cards
Take your eyes off your phones and E-readers, subway riders. There's some eye-catching art above your heads to look at instead. Three new art cards will adorn the panels in subway cars throughout the...
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