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The MTA's buses handle more than 2.6 million passenger trips each day, yet there's a lot of room for improvement in the efficiency of the MTA's bus operations.
The ability of older or disabled people to lead any kind of "normal" life is being threatened by cuts in the Metropolitan Transit Authority's (MTA) Access-A-Ride program.
When Bob Koch walks in, Caesar, a benevolent Beagle with big eyes, is lounging in it. Up until Caesar's arrival 2½ years ago, it was Bob's chair. "Now, it's our chair," he says.
It's not fair to compare two train systems of vastly different ages with vastly different histories and needs, but no one ever said life would be fair. So let's see how they measure up.
There is a vaguely Freudian quality to all the hostility toward cyclists (and the exercise culture which biking represents).
The city's popular "Train of Thought" program (formerly "Poetry in Motion"), which sought to brighten the subway commute with a little poetry and poignant prose, has been replaced by ads promoting the MTA's own achievements.
On top of $104 Metrocards, there's even more bad news for transit riders: the MTA is projecting that it will be $207 million in the hole by the end of 2012 despite the fare increase.
As a respectably athletic 20-something Manhattanite, I don't like to run around the block, unless it's in pursuit of a truck selling things that are deep-fried.
Voters want to know: which candidate for governor will finally bring the MTA's finances under control? Unfortunately, all they've heard from Cuomo and Paladino is outdated rhetoric.
Tait's film is a powerful depiction of the history of race in New York City. It's great strength is that it shows Blacks as historical actors battling for freedom and rights rather than as just victims of savage injustices.
In New York City's long tradition of fighting City Hall, one of the most spectacular examples happened a quarter century ago this week.
We are going to see more people crowding the same old streets. We will need to find a way to ration street space and improve mass transit or we will become immobilized by gridlock.
As New York City moves to advance its sustainability agenda, New York State's relentless budget crisis is having a dramatic impact on the cost structure of the region's mass transit.
New York City Government Makes Tough Budget Choices While Albany and Washington Play Political Games
Payments to retired government workers are coming at the expense of cutbacks in the city's classrooms. Talk about intergenerational injustice. The current New York City and New York State budget crises are hitting programs that build for the future at the expense of paying bills due today.
The construction of the subway's 7 line demonstrates just how haphazard transportation planning and construction has become in the United States.
Working New Yorkers are off to a very rough year, and the looming closure of bus and subway lines across the city may prove the cruelest cut of all.
New York State Senator Pedro Espada, ardent opponent of bridge tolls in the past, has now proposed a $2 toll on the East River Bridges.
Overcrowding on public transit doesn't just result in slower commutes; it also slows the city's growth.
Yesterday, as college students were walking out, teaching in and rallying at universities citywide and nationwide, thousands of local high school stud...
As part of a National Day of Action to Defend Public Education, the Coalition for Public Education held a demonstration on March 4th in front of City Hall.
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