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Westchester bus riders will pay MTA increases
United Spinal Association Sues MTA for Inaccessible Subway Stations: Years of Systemic Failure to Make Improvements « AccessTech News
Friday, November 5, 2010 4:00
New York, NY– October 13, 2010 – a lawsuit filed today in federal court for the Southern District of New York alleges that the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) discriminate against people who use wheelchairs, the elderly, and anyone else living with a mobility impairment. The class action [...]
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010 16:30
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 [...]
Subway Worker Is Electrocuted
Sunday, May 2, 2010 16:30
A subway maintenance supervisor was electrocuted early Monday morning while working on track repairs in the Rockaways, the first on-the-job death of a transit worker in three years. The supervisor, James Knell, 45, a 13-year veteran of the subway system, was assisting on a track replacement project near the Beach 90th Street Station on the [...]
DDS Wireless' StrataGen Unit Signs $900000 ADEPT(TM) Enhancement Contract with …
Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:30
RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Apr 12, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –DDS Wireless International Inc. /quotes/comstock/11t!e:dd (CA:DD 1.73, -0.01, -0.57%) announces today that itsTransit business unit, StrataGen Systems Inc., has closed asignificant contract with MTA new York City Transit (NYCT). Valued at over $900,000, the contract provides for additionalfunctionality to the existing StrataGen ADEPT(TM) Software systemallowing new [...]
What's The Deal With Subway Service Announcements?
Thursday, April 8, 2010 19:00
Can you hear them now? The Straphangers Campaign just released their survey results on subway service announcements, which found that 55% of the time when service is disrupted announcements are either not made, too garbled to understand, or just totally inaccurate. and this is actually a 10% improvement from their last study in 2006! Your [...]
Report: Weekend trains often not coming on time
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 5:00
Monday March 15, 2010 7:55 PM by Heather Haddon Straphangers just aren’t getting what they deserve on the weekends. Weekend trains were late nearly 30 percent of the time, according to a citywide survey released yesterday by the New York City Transit Riders Council. And service could further suffer later this year, as the MTA [...]
Metro – Look who rides free
Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:00
Ticket sellers for Long Island Rail Road at the Atlantic Avenue station. The LIRR gives workers and their families free passes to ride.Big perks Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road are even more generous: 6,853 LIRR employees got free passes this year, along with 2,626 of their spouses, and 3,427 dependents — a “child” up [...]
Disabled Fear Cuts to Van Service Will Force Them to Stay Home
Friday, March 19, 2010 15:00
After work, Milagros Franco wheels home in her motorized chair across the 2-mile pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge and then waits for a bus to her Manhattan apartment. “It saves time,” Franco said. but she depends on an Access-A-Ride van to get to work every morning, again, because that too saves time. Now, though [...]
NYCTRC releases the results of its service diversion survey …
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:00
Andrew Albert, Chair of the NYCTRC, discusses the results of the Council’s survey on service diversions The new York City Transit Riders Council (NYCTRC) has just released the results of its survey of planned weekend service diversions, “Don’t Count on it: A Study of Weekend Service Diversions”. The survey was conducted by the Council members [...]
