Tag: MTA
You may soon discern another sound among the honking, yelling, and construction sites along the streets of New York City: warning messages from MTA buses. According to the the New York Daily News, the MTA is developing a pilot program in which it will alert pedestrians to stay clear at turns by blaring warnings from […]
After a nine year run, the alarms on emergency exits in subway stations have seen their last days. A spokesman for the MTA has announced that aside from “a few lingering offenders,” the transit organization has disabled the alarms that mostly served the purpose of deafening straphangers. The alarms were initially installed to prevent fare […]
In the long list of MTA screw-ups, this one ranks pretty high: The New York Daily News reports that the MTA made a “useless fix” at the Middletown Road Station in the Bronx, adding a low-level MetroCard reader for handicap accessibility while failing to install an elevator for the handicapped. The above-ground station at Middletown […]
Under New York City’s Vision Zero law, there are criminal consequences for killing someone, even if it’s an accident, and this has some MTA bus drivers very unhappy after a colleague was arrested on Tuesday evening. Reginald Prescott, 57, was charged with failure to failure to yield — a misdemeanor since the new statute took […]
The MTA is exploring the possibility of putting in an entrance at Avenue A for the L train as part of a proposed $300 million dollar plan to improve the overcrowded subway line. According to a press release from the MTA, the L train “runs from Manhattan to the Canarsie section of Brooklyn through neighborhoods […]
New York’s subways continue to break ridership records, reports Pix 11. The MTA — which is still in massive debt, by the way — shattered records in September when more than 6 million people rode the subway on a single day. In October, ridership exceeded 6 million on seven separate days. The news was announced […]
Several subway lines were severely delayed on Thursday evening due to all sorts of problems, reports, well, everyone. There was a manhole fire that caused signal problems near the West Fourth Street station, a track fire on the 7 line, more signal problems on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 lines, and even […]
Today, the MTA released a series of on-air PSAs “to educate bus customers, pedestrians and bicyclists about safety on and around buses.” But for one New York-based traffic advocacy group, the ads don’t address the real threat to public safety: motorists. Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, shares his thoughts about the new […]
On Monday evening, the MTA held public hearings in the Bronx and Manhattan on fare hike proposals (PDF doc), one of which would raise the $2.50 base fare to $2.75. The transit agency, which is currently sitting on a $34.4 billion mountain of debt, seems to be in the habit of raising fares nearly every […]
An MTA board member made a lot of people shake their heads in collective disbelief Monday when he proposed a ban on backpacks in subways. Charles Moerdler sits on the board of the MTA and took a subway ride recently with his granddaughter, who was wearing a bag, when it suddenly occurred to him that backpacks are annoying in […]
