None of these solutions are going to be easy wins, and none of them are going to be complete fixes. But we can't scapegoat the honest salaries and earned benefits of hardworking people.
New York transit advocates have a pretty simple wish list for the city's next mayor: More money, more buses. Whether they will see their dreams fulfil...
NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the biggest transportation network in North America, approved fare hi...
Sandy shone a light on a well known, but not as well responded to fact -- that New York's infrastructure, crucially its public-transportation, is very old, over a century in parts and was built for a different world.
The MTA plans to dock two days’ worth of pay for hundreds of workers who failed to show up during Hurricane Sandy, the New York Daily News first rep...
When New York commissioned a 2011 study examining what might happen to New York City’s mass transit system if a hurricane struck, the findings were ...
With the Metropolitan Transportation Authority considering four different fare-increase proposals for subways and buses, now is the time to consider whether there is a better way to pay for the MTA.
Many people, including those at the MTA, seem to think that native landscaping is a small cosmetic issue. It is not. Like recycling, landscaping with native plants is at the heart of sustainable living and nature conservation.
Friends, family and the MTA community are mourning the loss of Alan Thomas, a 51-year-old Metro bus driver shot dead on the job Sunday morning in Wes...
Morning commuters were treated to free train rides Wednesday morning courtesy of the 99 percent. "Free entry, no fares collected," read official-looki...
Enrico Miguel Thomas takes his moniker, "The Subway Artist of New York," seriously. He sets his easel on platforms and draws as people rush by and the wind from arriving trains whips his canvas.
The initial Metro Century City seismological studies were released in October. To nobody's surprise, they showed that it would be "impossible" for Metro to build a station along Santa Monica Boulevard.
NEW YORK -- New York City transit officials say they've finished an unprecedented shutdown of the nation's biggest system of subways, buses and commut...
Step into a New York City subway and it can seem like you're witnessing biological warfare. Riders cough and sneeze all over the place, nauseating sme...
This morning, like most mornings, I took the M subway train from my neighborhood in Brooklyn to the office.
At my subway stop, a man came and sat dow...
Every 40 cents of your subway fare is being used to pay for past borrowing, a result of the poor decisions of Albany lawmakers. Now these poor decisions have resulted in the worst service cuts in a generation.
When we heard the MTA is considering raising monthly MetroCard prices to $130, that got us thinking: What would you be better off spending that hard-e...
The transit workers union is ratcheting up a class warfare campaign against MTA Chairman Jay Walder.
In the wake of painful service cuts and layoffs,...
NEW YORK — New York City's transit agency has approved a bus advertisement that depicts a plane flying toward the World Trade Center's towers as the...
You won't be able to use the "I was in the subway" excuse much longer when you miss a call.
In the next couple years, New Yorkers will be able to mak...