Thursday, August 9, 2007 – 9:48 am
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 – 4:42 pm
Apparently with all its fancy technology the MTA still hasn’t figured out a way to pump water from the tunnels when we get a storm here. The fast moving and violent storm that moved through this morning, and may have caused a tornado in Bay Ridge, also managed to throw the subways into chaos, […]
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 – 9:38 am
Hopefully the impending fare hikes proposed by the MTA won’t make you too sick. If they do you’re on your own.
For nearly a decade, medical professionals - first nurses and then emergency medical technicians - have been posted at some of the busiest stations to help ill travelers, remove them from trains as quickly […]
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 – 11:21 am
Forget the transit tax, let’s pay people to not take the subway into Manhattan, we’ll find new air from somewhere. I’m sure that’s how this report will be interpreted by some.
Howard H. Roberts Jr. had his staff compile the data to solve a mystery he encountered after taking over the nation’s largest transit […]
Thursday, June 14, 2007 – 10:39 am
No longer confident in relying on riders for their entire post 9/11 security upgrade with the “If You See Something, Say Something” program, the MTA has decided to just go ahead and go for it.
The headline is priceless.
Wow. Seriously? This actually makes the Hurricane Katrina response look timely. Way to really […]
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 – 11:00 am
A report released yesterday by the city Independent Budget Office says that unless the city and state start kicking in more money bus and subway fares in NYC could be as much as $3 by 2010.
“If we don’t get financial help soon, transit riders will face whopping fare hikes,” said Gene Russianoff of the […]
Monday, May 7, 2007 – 8:52 am
Peter Kalikow has decided to step down from his post as M.T.A. chairman in order to spend more time driving Ferraris and kicking homeless people.
Mr. Kalikow, who lives in an exclusive Fifth Avenue building and often uses a chauffeur, never pretended to come from the ordinary masses. In a May 2005 article, my colleague […]