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…
For the first time ever, NYC gets a subway map that actually shows what trains are running late at night when three lines shut down,
(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…
The MTA had one of the lowest moments in weather history during the blizzard of 2010, when buses were stranded and passengers stuck on snow-bound trains for hours. But there’s been no opportunity to test out lessons learned this winter. In advance of the first biggish storm of the season in NYC, a predicted 2-6…
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…
(Jonathan Wilson – WAMU) Two D.C. Metro workers have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars in coins from fare machines. Federal prosecutors allege 58-year-old Horace McDade, of Bowie, Md., and 54-year-old John V. Haile, of Woodbridge, Va., worked as a team to systematically pilfer from the transit agency’s malfunctioning fare machines. McDade is a revenue…
Subways and buses are still running in New York City – despite the lack of a contract between about 34-thousand New York City Transport Workers Union Local 100 members and their employer, the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Neither side offered an update, as talks continued Tuesday to reach an agreement. The union contract expired Sunday. But…
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