Tag: MTA
Designer Randy Gregory is undertaking a massive task: fixing everything that’s wrong with the New York City subway system in just 100 days-on Tumblr, of course. Gregory’s blog aims to propose one hypothetical improvement to the trains a day, and has been doing so since April 13 of this year. That makes today day 55, […]
If you forgot your laptop on the subway last month, you’re in luck: the MTA will sell it back to you. A treasure trove of possessions that more or less sober New Yorkers forgot on the train is sitting in an MTA storeroom waiting to get picked up. Every night, transit workers collect a mother […]
When Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City and its public transportation system last fall, the R train was one of the hardest-hit lines. Four thousand feet of that line’s East River tunnel flooded, filling with 27 million gallons of water, rendering travel from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back on the R impossible for nearly two […]
Earlier this week Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society reached out to four design firms in hopes for renovation proposals of Penn Station, sometimes referred to as a “lousy basement.” It’s in a dire need of a facelift. And let’s throw in some futuristic glassy escalators, why not. The present station isn’t sustainable — it can’t […]
Tomorrow, seven months (nearly to the day) after Hurricane Sandy, the Rockaways will once again have a fully-functional subway, as A Train finally service returns to the area. About a month after the storm, the MTA restored partial train service to the area via a temporary “H Train” that traversed the peninsula but didn’t extend to mainland […]
Each time you step on to the subway, you’re joining quite a large crowd of bacteria. How large? Microbiologist Norman R. Pace published a study this week detailing the roughly one billion tiny organisms living in every two cubic meters of air in the transit system–about the amount one person breathes each day. But don’t […]
This is not a cartoon. This is real, almost. The MTA is currently testing a giant thirty-foot inflatable “plug” that when filled with air would protect cities’ most vulnerable subway stops from the threat of floods and extreme weather conditions. It would, effectively, “seal off New York’s subways” if natural disaster strikes. This balloon was tested […]
Come across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne non-toxic test” in which the NYPD will disperse “harmless, colorless gas” around the five boroughs, […]
To no one’s surprise, the MTA is reportedly making tons of money with the new “green” fee that makes subway riders pay a buck for a new MetroCard. In the first month after the fee went into effect, more riders than transit officials predicted continued to buy new MetroCards — and paid the extra $1, […]
These are the people that make sure you get to work, safe and relatively on time. It was difficult to snap their portraits, as you may imagine, but I set up a stake-out around the Grand Central and Times Square stops this morning to bring you these photos of subway train conductors. Stand clear of […]
