System Conditions
MTA Restoration Of Rockaway Stations To Begin Next Summer
Great news for residents of the Rockaway peninsula. Starting next summer the MTA will restore every single station on the peninsula except for Beach 116th Street which is already under renovation. The news was featured in an article in last Friday’s The Wave, the local newspaper for the Rockaways. I would like to thank Subchat […]
NYC Subway Delays Are Growing; No, Really????
Straight from the desk of “Captain Obvious”, the New York City Transit department of the MTA is reporting that nyc subway delays are growing. We as straphangers did not need them to tell us this as we already knew that based on our commutes. However the agency decided to share the statistics over the weekend. […]
What A Nightmare Commute!
Today’s edition of AMNY has an exclusive story on the nightmare commute of airport worker Miguel Diaz. The paper feels his daily commute qualifies him to be called an “AMNY Extreme Commuter”. After reading his story, I can’t disagree with the paper’s designation for him. Mr. Diaz’s commute starts in Williamsburg at the Marcy Avenue […]
DOT & MTA Hope To Ease Holiday Gridlock
This past Thursday AMNY ran a brief article about the Department Of Transportation (DOT) & the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) implementing an anti-gridlock plan starting later this month. Here is the brief article courtesy of AMNY: To prevent holiday traffic meltdowns, the Department of Transportation and the MTA will implement an anti-gridlock plan later this […]
MTA Seeks Proposals For Their Alert System
Last month I wrote about the storm report the MTA submitted to Gov. Spitzer in regards to the August 8th system that sent the transit system into a state of mass chaos. In the report one of the solutions the MTA planned to implement was a service alert system that would provide e-mail and text […]
