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UPDATED Quiz: What are the Top Seven Transit Systems in the U.S.? — Some...
(Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) UPDATED WITH ONE MORE LIST: When Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff yesterday mentioned a $50 billion funding gap just to maintain the top seven...
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WiFi And Dial-tones Coming to NYC Subway Platforms…S l o w l y
(Photo by AZY_NYC / Flickr) (New York, NY – WNYC) WiFi is coming to NYC subway platforms, but not for another four years — and there will be no connectivity in tunnels. The subway station project was...
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NY MTA Launches Weekender Website (Again) to (Re)Clear Up Info Clutter
The faded lines (B, D, Q,) indicate there is no service this weekend on the new(ish) MTA special weekend website the Weekender. The NY MTA unveiled another redesign for weekend service announcements...
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WEEKEND PHOTOS: 75 Years Ago, the Henry Hudson Bridge Under Construction
The Henry Hudson Bridge under construction in 1936. (Courtesy NY MTA) New York City’s Henry Hudson Bridge turns 75 on Monday. Here’s a look back at it’s construction in 1936. The bridge spans the...
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TWU Suspends Talks with NY MTA Over Contract
Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen, left (Photo: Janet Babin/WNYC) Talks broke down today between New York’s Transport Workers Local Union 100 and New York’s Metropolitan...
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MTA Announces App Contest Winners
MTA App Winners (NY MTA photo) A company that created an app to find transit directions that can be used in subway tunnels won the NY MTA’s competition for the best Smartphone software app for riders...
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New Fears Over Revamped Transportation Bill
(photo by Flickr user: IceNineJon) A federal transportation bill that threatened to cut billions from mass transit budgets around the country has been scrapped. But as lawmakers return from a...
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MTA Board Member: Overnight Shutdowns Too Broad (And More are On the Way)
The MTA’s Fastrack closures inconvenience thousands of passengers. At a monthly NYC MTA Transit Committee meeting Monday, Board member Andrew Albert complained that during the last FastTrack, some...
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NYC and MTA Trade Shots Over Ownership of Crane Collapse Site
Site of the Crane Collapse (Photo: Brian Zumhagen/ WNYC) UPDATED New York City and the NY MTA are trading shots over who owns the site of a crane collapse that killed one worker and injured four...
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NY MTA Tepidly Explores Platform Barriers After Subway Track Deaths … Again
Paris Metro Platform with Glass Barrier. (Getty Images) It’s only natural after tragedy to look for action, for solutions, for prevention of the next loss. So after two men were pushed to their deaths...
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