Archive for April, 2009
The 1 Is Still Not #1
242nd St.-Van Cortlandt Park bound 1 train approaching 125th St.; Resized photo courtesy of Eye On Transit In January 2008, straphangers made it clear that the was not #1 by giving it an overall grade of a D+ for its Rider Report Card. Fast forward a little over a year later & the tune has […]
The W Leaves Failure Behind
Astoria/Ditmars Blvd-bound W departing the 36th Ave station. Resized photo courtesy of Eye On Transit. In January 2008, I tied the Rider Report Cards of the to our former President, George W. Bush. They both were failures according to the public. Fast forward a little over a year later & the overall grade showed an […]
Service Diversions 04-03
I have just updated the service diversions page with the latest scheduled diversions for the weekend & upcoming week (and beyond in some cases). Don’t forget to check in for any changes to the page. I also suggest printing out a copy of the page to use while riding the system. I will have some […]
Site Outage 03-30
I would like to take this time & apologize for yesterday’s downtime. I noticed something was wrong during the late morning hours as I went to see if I had any e-mails from the MTA. I could not access my e-mail & immediately noticed the site was down. A short time later, I found out […]