MTA — Tuesday, December 21, 2010 2:00
City rolls out classic buses for the holidays on Staten Island’s S61 route
Westchester bus riders will pay MTA increases
Sunday, November 14, 2010 2:00
Westchester Bee-Line bus riders will pay the same fare increases as passengers of New York City subways and buses after all. The local buses accept the same MetroCards that New York City transit riders use. But when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chose this month to raise its fares — boosting the cost of a monthly [...]
NYC subway motorman suffers apparent heart attack
Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:30
Associated Press – April 28, 2010 11:25 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) – New York City Transit officials say a subway motorman suffered an apparent heart attack while pulling out of a station in Queens, but no one was injured. Officials say 50-year-old Domenick Occhiogrosso was exiting the Long Island City-Court Square Station on the [...]
New York City as Seen Through its Subway Stops
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 15:00
Here’s the accompanying report in the Times: Every year, New York City Transit releases a station-by-station breakdown of ridership in the biggest subway system in the nation. Shake-ups are rare; the usual suspects — Times Square, Grand Central Station — routinely top the list, and last year was no exception. But 2009 was a time [...]
Nine People Injured When a MTA Bus Hits Cab | NYC Subway News
Sunday, April 25, 2010 19:00
Posted by Paul NapoliApril 06, 2010 11:52 AM An accident involving an MTA new York City Transit bus and a cab in Brooklyn has left nine people injured, according to NY1.com. The crash happened about 7 p.m. Saturday night as the B46 bus traveled the scheduled route on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights and collided [...]
MTA Service Cuts List
Saturday, March 27, 2010 16:00
MYFOXNY.COM – Service Changes – Implementation Timeline New York City Transit, MTA Bus, Long Island Bus All changes, bus and rail, are planned to be effective June 27, 2010. since that is a Sunday, weekday-only services (V, W, many of the express buses, etc) would run their last regular service on Friday, June 25 and [...]
2 Port Jervis Line trains slated for elimination
Friday, March 19, 2010 8:00
“; aryZooms[imgCounter] = “javascript: NewWindow(870,675,window.document.location+’&Template=photos&img=”+imgCounter+”‘)”; bolImages=true; Don’t let the official public hearing notice fool you: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to eliminate trains from the Port Jervis Line. The notice, crammed with summaries about cuts proposed for New York City Transit and Long Island Rail Road, appears to suggest Metro-North Railroad will be spared. [...]
MTA not amused by spoof service announcement posters
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:00
57 m ago By Heather Haddon Fake subway service alert posters that take jabs at the MTA’s plans to cut service are no laughing matter, the agency said Tuesday. The orange posters replicate the NYC Transit signs down to the Helvetica font and “GREED” typed out in circular train letters. “We are making service cuts [...]
M.T.'s World: The story behind the NYC Transit bus logos
Monday, March 15, 2010 13:00
If you have seen my photographs of my bus photos, you might have noticed some logos on them. those logos denote the depots and garages where the buses are stored. New York City Transit has around 16 depots in the entire city of New York, not including MTA Bus company and Long Island bus. I [...]
