MTA officials are moving forward with plans to make cell phone service available at more subway stations. The next two will be Times Square and Rockefeller Center. Transit Wireless, the company creating the subway cell phone network, says engineering work has begun on both projects, and construction will begin in the spring, with service available…
A company that created an app to find transit directions that can be used in subway tunnels won the NY MTA’s competition for the best Smartphone software app for riders Embark NYC, can help NYC subway riders plan trips, see schedules for their particular route, and use an interactive map of the subway system. David…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City’s Transport Workers Union are back at the bargaining table for the first time in about two weeks. But already, there’s controversy. The New York Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the MTA had caved in to costly union demands. The paper said the agency would give subway…
Talks resume Thursday between New York City’s Transport Workers Union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It is the first time the two sides will have met since contract talks collapsed late last month. Both sides return to the bargaining table with little animosity, according to a source close to the union. But the calm comes…
A Princeton professor emeritus and author of a book on the Port Authority says Governor Chris Christie’s hiring recommendations at the Port Authority far outpace his predecessor’s patronage hires. Jameson Doig, author of “Empire on the Hudson,” is speaking up after the Bergen Record published the names of some 50 employees, from executives to a…
(Brian Zumhagen, WNYC — New York, NY) Transit officials say shutting down sections of subway lines for several nights in a row could be a new model for how to do maintenance work on the city’s subway system. At an MTA meeting Monday, board members reviewed the first so-called “Fast Track” project that halted service…
Talks broke down today between New York’s Transport Workers Local Union 100 and New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Members of The Transport Workers Union gathered in the lobby of New York City Transit headquarters in Lower Manhattan and accused the authority of bargaining in the media, instead of at the negotiation table. Local 100 President…
The NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority says blasting for the creation of the Second Avenue subway line has not increased pollution. But something else apparently did elevate some pollutants during the time the air was being tested. The MTA commissioned the study from private firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. It did find elevated levels of three pollutants…
After sailing through two committee hearings, Joseph Lhota was unanimously confirmed by the New York State Senate to be chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday. “I’m very pleased and honored,” Lhota said afterwards, speaking to reporters outside the Senate gallery. “I’m looking forward to this opportunity to make a difference.” But…
How much of his prepared remarks did New York Governor Cuomo skip over in yesterday’s State of the State? A lot. But he got in plenty of time for a whimsical PowerPoint presentation. TN’s Andrea Bernstein talks about the governor’s speech and his $15 billion infrastructure plan on today’s Brian Lehrer Show. “He so rarely…
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