Cuomo Declares a State of Emergency for NYC Subways: Update 7/26 - MTA submits 2 phase $9bil plan
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Man Dies on Subway After Being Placed in Chokehold
The police said the man, 30, was acting erratically on an F train Monday afternoon when another man placed him in a chokehold.
yikes
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Lab tests reveal dangerous levels of lead falling from several MTA structures
After sending samples to a lab, the results showed lead levels up to 12 times higher than standards from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
brooklyn.news12.com
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Brooklyn’s Broadway Junction is getting a $500 million makeover
Riders on the A, C, J, L and Z trains will be pleased.
www.timeout.com
Anyone hear about this
First time I’ve read or heard anything about it
88m3
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Central Business District Tolling Program
Learn more about the MTA's proposed congestion pricing program.
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MTA unveils new designs for subway turnstiles, reports $690M in fare and toll evasion
The MTA displayed prototypes of new fare gates that resemble those in place on Paris' subway system.
gothamist.com
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Extra Extra: The new Acela trains are too advanced for the Northeast Corridor rail lines
Because the tracks were built for old freight trains, here are your end-of-day links: Ralph Yarl walks at public event, "honest work" meme farmer dies, Salt Life takes over Long Island and more.
gothamist.com
Sigh
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Extra Extra: The new Acela trains are too advanced for the Northeast Corridor rail lines
Because the tracks were built for old freight trains, here are your end-of-day links: Ralph Yarl walks at public event, "honest work" meme farmer dies, Salt Life takes over Long Island and more.
Sigh
Wish I could be surprised
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New York May Have Actually Lost Transit Riders by Building An $11 Billion Train Station — VICE
East Side Access, long delayed and over cost, finally opened, but it isn’t drawing new riders and may actually be scaring some away.
apple.news
Anyone can attest to this? WFH helps but no way with those types of numbers.
New York May Have Actually Lost Transit Riders by Building An $11 Billion Train Station — VICE
East Side Access, long delayed and over cost, finally opened, but it isn’t drawing new riders and may actually be scaring some away.
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MSG, Penn Station are ‘not compatible’ due to boundaries restricting improvements: MTA
The state-run MTA has signed off on a bombshell 11th-hour report claiming both the station and World’s Most Famous Arena are not compatible.
nypost.com
Hmmm
SmoothOperator88
Your friendly neighborhood coli poster
Tbh not really new. The renovation work that would need to be done to get the actual tracks up to current standards would require MSG to be relocated.
All the work currently being done and that has been done in the recent past is just a band-aid.
All the work currently being done and that has been done in the recent past is just a band-aid.
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M.T.A. Looks Beyond Enforcement After $690 Million in Fare Evasion
A study proposed new approaches to get riders to pay to ride New York City’s transit system, including replacing subway turnstiles with fare gates that are harder to jump over.
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Price of N.Y.C. Subway Ride Will Go Up for the First Time in Years
The M.T.A. board voted to raise the base fare to $2.90 from $2.75, after pausing increases to try to lure back riders lost during the pandemic.
