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NYC's Aging Bus Terminal To Get Patchwork Fixes: Associated Press
By VERENA DOBNIK — Jul. 27, 2014 11:48 AM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — At the nation's busiest bus station, winding lines of riders wait amid cracked floors, crumbling ceiling tiles and a wheezing...
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Details Emerge of Long Island Rail Road Contract - WYNC
Monday, July 28, 2014 - 12:15 PM When Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the deal between the Metropolitan Transit Authority and Long Island Rail Road workers earlier this month, specific details...
View ArticleSurvey on NY Subway Experience! Grad Student Design Study
Any New Yorkers want to tell us how they feel about the subway? Tell us in this survey! http://bit.ly/1mSQiYh It takes less than a minute to complete! Thank you in advance. -Students of Miami Ad...
View ArticleA Needed Change in our Driving Culture
Lane Courtesy should be ingrained in our driving culture as a 24/7 practice by everyone on the road. Yet with the summer driving season upon us and vacation traffic flooding the highways, it is...
View ArticleMy Vacation in Canada and Upstate NY
http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2014/07/commute-vacation-canada-upstate-new-york-part-1-2/ http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2014/07/commute-vacation-canada-upstate-new-york-part-2-2/
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Division Logos
Since the renaming of 100th Street to Tuskegee Airman Depot, have any new depot emblems been introduced? Also does anyone have an electronic (jpeg, bitmap or other version) copy of the 1960's "ta"...
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MTA goes forward with 4% fare and toll hikes for 2015
Updated budget plans unveiled by the MTA on Monday show that a previously planned 2015 fare and toll hike of 4% will not be increased, despite rising labor costs. The Metropolitan Transportation...
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Subway crime down as NYPD steps up efforts against litterbugs
The NYPD is squashing litterbugs. Police this year have ticketed 268 subway riders for littering — and arrested another 94 litterers for more serious offenses, such as skipping court dates, police...
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Riders on C train will have to wait longer for new Subway cars
Riders on the train, who endure the oldest and most battered subway cars in the entire system, will have to continue to do so for longer than planned. The manufacturer of a new model of subway car...
View ArticleRockaways Trip Info/See you Sunday
Rockaways by Rail. We look forward to seeing you this upcomingSunday, August 3rd! We will meet at the New York Transit Museum, which is located at the corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street in...
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On Subway, Flying Feet Can Lead to Handcuffs
The young dancers, Peppermint and Butterscotch, scanned the scattered faces aboard the New York City subway. One caught their eye. “Are you a cop?” a performer asked, as their Q train rumbled toward...
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority: An Overview of Capital Needs -...
In this report State Comptroller DiNapoli after an investigation found that the MTA and the pending $12 billion dollars it needs to finance the next capital budget to take effect in 2015 may not cover...
View ArticleSwitching Depots
Hey guys, I usually post over on the NJ Transit board since I am a bus operator for them. But I was recently speaking with an MTA b/o who was riding my bus and he mentioned that he had switched...
View Articlehudson cty cusa route descriptions wanted
Good evening . I am looking for route descriptions for the Hudson County Local routes....not njt routes.. Showing every turn and turnaround route..in detail.... For the most part they are the coach usa...
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MAJOR Subway goof in Sharknado 2 Movie
If you saw the Sharknado 2 movie that aired Wednesday night on Syfy, there was a MAJOR subway goof in the film, that being the trains stopping at 96th Street. Someone should have seen that and...
View ArticleStraphangers 2014 subway report card.
Any thoughts? I don't think the 2 train is that bad. http://straphangers.org/statesub14/index.html
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(2) GO
How does the get to the Wall Street Station? Does it go around the South Ferry loop and come out on the Lex Ave side? And then it would have to reverse direction to go to Brooklyn. Flatbush Av-bound...
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More Than Half of Citi Bike's Early Members Did Not Renew
Citi Bike doesn’t publish numbers on how many people are renewing their memberships. While the system does release monthly reports on how many people sign up or renew, it doesn’t break out renewals as...
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SEPTA's Trolley Tunnel Blitz
This is similar to the Subway Fastrack where a section of a tunnel gets shutdown for extensive work on tracks and stations, only this affects all of trolley tunnel in Philly...
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The Park Avenue Tunnel Will Ring With the Sound of...Crustaceans
For three Saturdays this month, the sounds of car traffic in Midtown Manhattan's Park Avenue Tunnel will be replaced with...the sounds of crustaceans, fish, and glaciers. It's part of the city's...
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