Tag: MTA
NYC’s Public Transit Union really, really wants people to stop dying in the subway. While the MTA is busy working on some high-tech, costly solutions to prevent subway deaths — some of which will allegedly take decades to implement — the Public Transit Union has come up with an immediate plan of action: blood-splattered “Metro(death)Cards.” Yes, this is […]
Tomorrow is Grand Central Station’s 100th birthday, so put on your largest Edwardian feather hat and prepare to party like it’s 1913… and eat. A LOT. As part of the celebration, vendors will be offering a slew of stuff for century-old prices. Seriously. Nickel pounds of pasta, gelato for a dime a scoop, fudge for […]
New Yorkers finally get a say in which voice will alert them when their train is approaching. The much-anticipated Second Avenue Subway won’t be up and running for a few more years, but the ever-democratic MTA is now inviting commuters to vote for the new voice of the T line. Click here to vote for […]
After months of badgering by activists groups and politicians alike, the MTA has announced it will consider making service improvements to the oft-maligned G train–adding more trains, better communication about outages and service changes, and free above-ground transfers to other lines at certain stops. The authority also officially voted to make the line’s extension to […]
There’s recently been a grassroots push for more service on Brooklyn’s oft-maligned G train. While advocates say the service is too infrequent for a crucial link between north and south Brooklyn, the MTA maintains that ridership isn’t high enough for them to increase service. But the only reason ridership is so low, activists counter, is […]
Benjamin Kabak of the transit blog Second Avenue Sagas was recently given a media tour of Lower Manhattan’s South Ferry Station, which suffered incredible damage during Hurricane Sandy and is likely to take up to three years and $600 million to repair. What he found–documented in the photos above–looks more like a station that’s been abandoned […]
Adam Mansbach, the bestselling cool dad author of Go the Fuck to Sleep, recently approached the MTA with the ads for his new book Rage Is Back. CBS Outdoor promptly shut down his request to put that on the exterior of subway trains. They don’t want anything that looks like graffiti. To be fair, the book is about a graffiti writer […]
In response to the recent spat of subway-related deaths, the train operators union has called for drivers to drastically reduce their speed when entering a station. A memo distributed by the union urges operators to “enter every station as if there is a pair of yellow lanterns at the entrance,” a sign which calls for […]
Though they don’t match the minimal beauty of Andrew Lynch’s brilliant single-line New York City Subway posters–which we posted about yesterday–these screenprinted wall-hangings inspired by our city’s transit system are pretty nice-looking as well. Designer Jody Williams, a New Yorker who’s been transplanted to Grand Rapids, Michigan, says the city still “inspires and influences” his […]
