Archive for December, 2011
Staten Island Railway Christmas Service Plan
As usual, the MTA Staten Island Railway will be providing its “Getaway” service: Staten Island customers looking to get a head start on their holiday weekend will be able to catch earlier afternoon express train service on Friday, December 23 with Staten Island Railway’s Early Departure Getaway schedule. This schedule means extra SIR trains will […]
MTA Launches Real Time Elevator Escalator Info
Just the other day, the MTA announced the launch of an e-mail alert containing real time elevator & escalator service info. Here are the details via press release: MTA New York City Transit is now offering customers the opportunity to receive up-to-the-minute updates on the status of elevators and escalators through a new email alert […]
LIRR Launches Real Time Train Info Pilot
In this day & age, real time information is available at our fingertips regardless of the subject matter. Unfortunately when it comes to the MTA, they have been far behind their peers in providing such information to its riding public. They have been trying to catch up so they deserve a little credit for that. […]
Service Diversions 12-19-11
I have just updated the Service Diversions by removing the work that wrapped up about a minutes ago. This week’s planned work has moved up the list. The next update will be sometime on Thursday after I receive the press release from the MTA. As always, if I hear or see anything worth noting, I […]
Service Diversions 12-16-11
I have just updated the Service Diversions with the latest planned work for the weekend, next week & beyond in some cases. If I hear or see anything of interest or importance, I will post it on Twitter so follow @Transitblogger or you can make it easier on yourself by clicking the button in the […]
