The first phase of the MTA’s OMNY program—which is a “contactless fare payment system” for public transportation via smartphone rather than MetroCard—kicked off in June, and is now being implemented sl...
If you passed by 14th Street sometime in the last few days, chances are you’ve noticed an eerie emptiness to the large road. For the next 18 months, the once busy street will be a dedicated busway by day with no o...
Yup, you read that right. The MTA has announced a four year plan to repair the transit system, but it’ll take $51.5 billion in capital spending. According to their proposal, it is by far the largest capital plan i...
Subway commuters may have noticed an uptick in those fancy digital displays on subway platforms across the city, but one man seems very unhappy with them. Last week, a man was caught on camera smashing the advertising d...
Another morning, another new MTA announcement about some upcoming repairs. Yesterday’s was about the limited L Train service in Brooklyn on nights/weekends and today’s will affect lines 1, 2 and 3 for the ne...
New York City’s subway system isn’t exactly known for its timeliness, but it seems that June was a particularly good month for the MTA. According to an announcement made on Thursday (July 11) by the MTA, the...
It’s about time… The buses driving around Staten Island are getting quite old and like a lot of the current public transportation in NYC, in desperate need of an upgrade. The good news is that regular riders on local an...
Earlier this year it was announced that newsstands across subway stations would be swapped out for the convenience of vending machines, and the time has come. CVS vending machines are the first to make their subway debu...
The Fair Fares program that launched back in January, was an outreach effort by the MTA to help those receiving less than a certain income to be able to afford public transportation in the city. The program currently ha...
Almost a week into implementing the first phase of the OMNY system, the numbers are in and it looks like they’re much higher than initially anticipated… News of the tap-n-go payment coming to the NYC subway...