Archive for December, 2017
Metro North Christmas 2017 Service Plan
Here is the MTA Metro-North Railroad’s 2017 Christmas holiday service plan information: Let Metro-North help make your holidays happy! Whether you’re visiting friends and family, shopping or sightseeing, riding Metro-North is a safe, convenient way to get you where you want to go this long holiday weekend. On Friday, December 22, Metro-North will be on […]
MTA Conductor Neglects Autistic Son
When you hear or read certain stories, you can not help but boil over in anger & frustration. This was one of those instances for me after reading how a MTA conductor named Charisma Bellamy was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after her autistic son was wandering around in a subway station […]
MTA Adds Longer Cars To C Line
The MTA recently started adding longer train cars to the to increase capacity as ridership has increased along the line in certain areas. Vincent Barone of AMNY has more in this report: The MTA has begun running a few longer train cars on the C line in order to accommodate neighborhood growth around it, according […]
Metro North To Make Improvements At 5 Stations
Catching up on some transit news from the past few days, the MTA Metro-North Railroad announced it will be making improvements at 5 stations. Here are more details courtesy of the press release I received: MTA Metro-North Railroad today announced that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board has approved a $91.5 million design-build contract to the […]
MTA Chairman Clashes With State Senator
Long time readers know how much I hate political grandstanding. Tri-state area riders know full well how much of that goes on with elected officials who seem to always care about mass transit funding & issues when it gives them a chance to earn political brownie points. MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota is another one who […]
