Tag: Transit
Press play and try to imagine you’ve just taken some very good drugs and just hopped on the subway on your way home. You’re not quite ready for the claustrophobia of the train, but once you’re on, you relax, and it’s actually quite nice. Sit back and enjoy. (If you’re interested, it’s actually Metro, a piece […]
According to Community Board 10 Chairwoman Henrietta Lyle, the first uptown Citi Bikes may be arriving in Harlem. Lyle told the board yesterday that two racks would be installed in the neighborhood: one at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 155th Street, the other at Lexington and 98th. Lyle questioned whether these were the ideal locations. “What about […]
The Daily News is reporting the driver in the West Side Highway motorcycle chase/fight footage that went viral yesterday is Alexian Lien, a 33-year-old man working in finance and tech. As was initially reported, his wife and two-year-old child were in the car with him. According to police, after Lien stopped his car near the end of the […]
Bike lanes: not a terrorist plot to cause traffic congestion and take away parking spaces from cop cars! The people of New York actually want them, according to a new survey from Transportation Alternatives. Crazy! In fact, 70% of respondents support bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, and believe it or not, it’s not just the two-wheeled […]
Fung Wah and Lucky Star, OGs of the Chinatown bus game, may be returning to the playing field this fall after a months-long absence. The U.S. Department of Transportation ordered the Fung Wah off the road in February of this year after myriad safety violations, and Lucky Star lost its wheels for similar reasons in […]
Good news for watchers of the Second Avenue Subway: progress! The 80-year-old project received its first-ever shipment of rails today, a cargo that will be stored in a “cavern” at 96th Street until further notice, according to the New York Times. Okay, it isn’t much, but it does look like the MTA is on track to hit […]
In the five weeks since the British tourist Sian Green was maimed by a taxi in Midtown, there have been at least nine pedestrians killed by automobiles in the five boroughs and thirteen other accidents involving pedestrian injuries. It seems like an extreme number, and it is, but for NYC it’s business as usual: cars have been killing […]
The Straphangers Campaign has completed the latest installment of its annual study of subway announcements, and the R train is still the worst. Forty-four percent of messages on that line were either not understandable or not accurate–just about the same rate the line was operating at last year. The L and the Q, on the […]
That moment–when you come above ground onto the Manhattan Bridge on the N train, or you pull into 14th Street on the A, and you’re frantically refreshing your Twitter and Instagram feeds to give yourself something new to look at for the next 10 minutes–may soon be a thing of the past. MTA chairman Thomas F. […]
A favorite complaint amongst opponents of the bike lanes and pedestrian plazas that have popped up in NYC during the Bloomberg administration is that they’re taking room away from cars and slowing traffic down (hi NYP). Even if it’s true, it’s not an especially effective argument–bikes are a valid and important part of transit in […]
