Tag: MTA
Monday marks the 110th anniversary of the first subway running in New York City. Commemorative things are planned. Ya know, celebratory stuff. But the real fucking party was back in 1904 on the streets of Manhattan when the common man saw technology manifest in front of his or her eyes in the form of an […]
If a business has a record number of customers, it would stand to reason that they should be enjoying record success. Don’t tell the MTA that, because in the month of September they broke their own records for single day ridership 5 times, meanwhile they’re still in massive debt and will be raising fare prices […]
Fares for the MTA would have to increase by 15% if they are forced to borrow money to close budget gaps. According to the state controller Thomas DiNapoli, for every $1 billion the MTA borrows they would have to pay $70 million (a 1% fare-hike) in debt service. With $15 billion needed to cover the MTA’s […]
One New York City agency is attempting to use advertising space in the transit system to increase charitable volunteering. A torrent of 1000 ads encouraging citizens to use their free time to help out will appear in the subway today. NYC Service, has set the ambitious goal of increasing the number of New Yorkers who volunteer […]
The practice of men sitting on the subway with their legs spread so far apart that they take up two seats has been given a name: “man spread.” According to amNY, it’s a “widening blight on public transportation.” It’s so common that there are competing blogs dedicated to posting pictures of the offenders. When they asked […]
On Friday, the New York State Comptroller released a report detailing the repairs needed on the city’s subway stations. There wasn’t a lot of good news. The report is based on a year-long survey that was completed in 2012. As of two years ago, only a quarter of stations were found to have at least 90% […]
Surveillance cameras will be installed in subway cars across the city as soon as 2015. MTA’s Capital Program has budgeted for 940 new subway cars on the lettered lines and will install the cameras over a period of four years. The 300 recently purchased cars for the C and J lines may also receive the Big Brother […]
Blogger and well-bankrolled racist Pamela Geller has decided to pull her latest hate-mongering anti-Islam MTA ads featuring journalist James Foley moments before he was beheaded. The $100,000 campaign was set to be launched this morning in New York and San Francisco. The ads feature a photo of a man suspected to be Foley’s executioner rapping into a microphone side-by-side the now infamous […]
The MTA responded to a recent I Quant NY post explaining how the transit authority’s vending machines trick commuters by applying bonuses that leave you with less than enough money to pay for another ride. Ben Wellington, who runs the data-driven site, found their response unsatisfactory: “These machines do not hold an infinite amount of change and the […]
According to an MTA panel draft report, climate change is wreaking havoc on New York’s crucial transport system, inside and out. Experts fear that this is causing equipment to break down and structures to be damaged, notes Capital New York. The ever-climbing temperatures on platforms are posing increasing health risks to commuters. Flooding is not the only climate change risk to the system. Extreme temperatures, particularly […]
