Call him Professor Joe Lhota.
At MTA headquarters this morning, the transit agency’s chairman unveiled a fare and toll increase plan for next year that raises all travel costs by about 7 percent across the system, raising $450 million for the agency for the next two years. Read More
A month ago, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign’s first “State of the Station Platforms” was published, outlining the prevalence of twelve conditions down under the streets. The issues ranged from broken light fixtures to rats to garbage accessibility. It was an honest assessment: Subway platforms were not in the best condition, but they weren’t in the worst, either.
But an MTA official thinks quite differently about the cleanliness and conditions. Read More
A thickly layered commuter dressed in snow boots, maroon sweatpants and a long black overcoat covered his face with a big knit scarf as the grimy W train trudged along the tracks toward Herald Square at 3:03 p.m. on Jan. 15.
A horrible stench had overtaken the downtown-bound subway car.
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The Straphangers Campaign today issued its 11th annual “State of the Subways” Report card, rating the L as the best of 22 subway lines, followed by the 7. Both of these lines are participating in a management pilot program and are run by Line General Managers who have been given a greater degree of Read More
Last night at the New York Blood Center auditorium on the Upper West Side, Assemblyman Micah Kellner moderated a panel on post-congestion-pricing solutions for city transportation that reached a general consensus but no real solution: Congestion pricing is not a bad idea, the proposal was just executed poorly, and right now the M.T.A. is, as Read More
It only took three weeks for the MTA to “postpone” the service upgrades promised after the March fare hikes, so we were skeptical when officials told frustrated straphangers that the package might be approved in June if the MTA’s financial
MTA Executive Director Lee Sander said Wednesday that the transportation authority faced an Read More
New York City commuters awoke this morning to the grim reality that improved mass transit service is not in the cards anytime soon; but if it’s any consolation subways have gotten (slightly) cleaner since 2005, according to the ninth annual “Subway Shmutz” report released today by the Straphangers Campaign.
On the whole, the results Read More
