Tag: Transit
After the Metro-North derailment that killed four people in December, the Federal Railroad Administration conducted a study on the safety of the MTA-operated commuter line. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they found that a “deficient safety culture” prevails on the rail system. According to the New York Times, the federal administration found that workers are pressured to “rush when responding to […]
Across the country, mass transit ridership is higher than it’s been in half a century, and New York City is leading the way. According a report from the American Public Transit Association, Americans took 10.7 billion trips on subways, buses, streetcars, and commuter trains in 2o13 — 37.2 percent higher than in 1995. “As the […]
If you felt like December was a worse-than-average month for getting to work on time on the subway, you were right: according to MTA statistics, there were 36,485 delays that month — 80 percent higher than in December 2012. The entirety of last year was bad, in fact, with 28 percent more delays than the […]
The premise of Mini Metro seems simple enough: design and build a subway system that will shuttle the citizens of your imaginary utopia from point A to point B in as safe and efficient a manner as possible. But then your population starts to skyrocket, and you don’t have enough train cars to keep up, […]
MTA Bus Time is great. If your line of choice has it and you’ve got a phone, you can know exactly when a bus will arrive at your stop, rather than having to deal with the transit authority’s sometimes unreliable static schedule. Now, the program — which already covers Staten Island, Manhattan, and the Bronx […]
Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” initiative — the plan to reduce traffic fatalities to zero within ten years — has thus far been little more than a hopeful idea. This week, however, the mayor rolled out the specifics of how he intends to pull it off. Those include everything from indicators inside taxis that tell […]
It’s not uncommon for taxi drivers to kill their passengers or pedestrians in a crash and get off scot-free, without even a suspension to their licenses. On the Upper West Side, a local community board is fighting that status quo. At a meeting this week, CB7’s Transportation Committee unanimously resolved that “any driver who kills […]
At around 5:30 this morning, a man driving a stolen box truck crashed into a city bus at Seventh Avenue and 14th Street, killing William Pena, the bus driver, and injuring four others, including the driver of the truck. Police were pursuing the truck before the crash, and apprehended the driver at the scene. Pena was a […]
Quick: you’re in a hurry, standing on the J Train platform headed towards Canal Street. You’re going on a date on the Upper East Side, so you’ll need to transfer to the 6 train when you get there. Where do you stand so that when you get there, you don’t have far to go? A […]
According to a report by the Post, most cabbies who have been involved in fatal or serious accidents in recent years are still behind the wheel. The tabloid looked at 16 at all taxi crashes since 2009, and of the 16 that resulted in the death or maiming of a passenger or pedestrian, only two drivers had […]
