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• MTA facility causing problems in Dutch Kills

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 568
  From the Queens Gazette : Residents in the Dutch Kills community are fuming over the condition of a trashstrewn MTA training facility in their neighborhood, along with a failure on the part of Sanitation inspectors and elected officials to force the agency to clean up their act. Dutch Kills Civic Association ...
  1 day ago

• Transit debuts countdown clocks along the 6 line

  
  Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog — Authority: 563
  Electronic timers at E. 143rd St. tell straphangers when the next 6 train will arrive. (Photo courtesy of New York City Transit) Around the world, subway systems these days come with countdown timers that tell impatient passengers when the next trains will come. One line in New York — the L — has enjoyed this ...
  2 days ago

• Sheepshead Bay Starbucks Opening Delayed

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 140
  Bad news for those salivating in anticipation of the new drive-through Starbucks on Nostrand Avenue: their planned opening date has been pushed back by several months.We reported back in July that the 3454 Nostrand Avenue (corner of Gravesend Neck Road) location would open this month. Unfortunately, Metropolitan ...
  2 days ago

• MTA Begins Testing Digital Signs on the 6 Train Line

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 564
  Following an announcement that was made last month, the MTA is now testing digital display boards at stations on the 6 subway line, which give a countdown on the number of minutes left until the next train arrives.  Originally tested and now used on the L line,  the MTA is still hoping to have countdown signs in ...
  2 days ago

• More MTA Related iPhone Apps

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 564
  The New York Daily News gives a run down this week of some of the more interesting MTA related apps that New Yorkers can download for their iPhones.  One app in particular that caught their eye is called GRAB IT: New York Nearest Subway, which uses augmented reality to help iPhone users locate a subway station.  ...
  3 days ago

• The PR problem with the MTA’s PR department

  
  Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog — Authority: 563
  Much of my coverage of the MTA’s labor costs have focused around union raises and generous pension plans. I would be remiss to neglect to mention the high costs and redundancies found within the agency’s management structure as well. These problems — triple-staffing in some circumstances — are just as ...
  3 days ago

• How much is that pension in the window?

  
  Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog — Authority: 563
  As the MTA has come to grips with its $400 million operating gap, we’ve heard a lot about rising labor costs and pension problems, but few have quantified exactly how much of the fiscal pie pensions take up. In a piece this weekend in The Post , Susan Edelman explored the cost of these pension plans . The numbers ...
  3 days ago

• word of the day: shame

  
  Not Another F*cking Blog! — Authority: 109
  from Dictionary.com : shame:   the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous , etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame. Today, Forest City Ratner, the developer of the proposed Atlantic Yards development in Prospect Heights, ...
  3 days ago

• Artists Stage Illicit Subway Show for the Holidays

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 670
  Last December, a small group of artists installed an unauthorized holiday display to raise straphangers’ spirits and spruce up a neglected corner of the Columbus Circle Subway Station. The budding tradition continues after today’s extremely early morning opening of the second annual “ Holiday Gift to NYC Show ...
  3 days ago

• Help save the doomed MTA lines

  
  EV Grieve — Authority: 597
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  4 days ago

• Teaching John Liu, comptroller-elect, a lesson in MTA economics

  
  Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog — Authority: 563
  When it comes to educating New Yorkers about the MTA’s problems, I’m all in favor of advocacy journalism. I’ve long believed the most New Yorkers who don’t actively seek out transit news are ill-informed on MTA matters because our major news outlets both in print and on TV do not adequately and thoroughly ...
  4 days ago

• Atlantic Yards headscratcher

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 568
  From Atlantic Yards Report : A master closing involving the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), and developer Forest City Ratner is expected to be held [today]. But the ESDC tells me that the documents wont be made publicly available until a week or two after the ...
  4 days ago

• Poisoning the waters

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 568
  From the Daily News : A bridge rehabilitation project that already has a list of snafus - including the death of a worker and a fire that resulted in weeks of snarled traffic - is being charged with yet another potential hazard: the dumping of high levels of lead and mercury in the water. The blasting of ...
  4 days ago

• NYS Capital Program Review Board Gets an Online Home

  
  Mobilizing the Region — Authority: 422
  The Capital Program Review Boards website is hosted by the NYS Senate. In early September, MTR introduced readers to New York State’s MTA Capital Program Review Board, a six-member committee with veto power over the MTA’s capital program. At the time there was virtually no public information about the board, ...
  4 days ago

• MTA Proposes To Cut Free Student Metro Cards - Help Roosevelt Island Students By Signing Online Petition Urging Restoration

  
  ROOSEVELT ISLANDER — Authority: 433
  You Tube Video Of NYC Kids Close To Losing Free Metro Cards The Huffington Post reports: The cash-strapped agency that runs New York City subways and buses is considering a proposal to end the more than 60-year-old practice of giving free rides for schoolchildren, a move that could cost half a million students ...
  4 days ago

• Gun Decorating Idea For the Gangsta On Your List

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 670
  It’s time again for SubTalk with the MTA! This gun puzzle ad (click to enlarge) is so helpful, thank you various City groups listed at the bottom of it. Thugs? Why not paint your piece red or green for Christmas mugging weeking? Or maybe red/white like a candy cane! You’ll probably get more gift cash that way. ...
  4 days ago

• Residents Want to Keep Free Pass for Cross Bay Bridge by Brendan Brosh - NY Daily News

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 131
  Read original... The Cross Bay Bridge rebate program, which saves Rockaway and Broad Channel residents millions of dollars every year, is in jeopardy of being axed as the MTA tries to fill a nearly $400 million hole in its budget. The program allows E-ZPass holders in those communities to essentially cross ...
  5 days ago

• Scientist: Throgs Neck Rehab Dumped Toxins into Little Bay by Joe Kemp - NY Daily News

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 131
  Read original... A bridge rehabilitation project that already has a list of snafus - including the death of a worker and a fire that resulted in weeks of snarled traffic - is being charged with yet another potential hazard: the dumping of high levels of lead and mercury in the water. The blasting of lead-based ...
  5 days ago

• CurbedWire: Megaprojects Mania: 7 Train Hits Milestone, Rezonings Galore!

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 686
  Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [Photos via nyc.gov ] FAR WEST SIDE— Delays may be piling up at the Second Avenue Subway, but the 7 train extension project just completed its first phase ! The big scary tunnel boring machine has reached the southern wall of the 34th Street cavern ...
  5 days ago

• Using stimulus funds but from another source

  
  Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog — Authority: 563
  Last week, I explained why I was not in favor of Gene Russianoff’s plan to use stimulus funds to cover the MTA operating gap. It’s not sound policy to move money from capital projects to operating deficits, and to do so would risk future MTA financial problems without solving the current one on hand. Today, ...
  5 days ago

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