July 3, 2024Jul 3 good idea — Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn’s primary thoroughfare, may soon get a new bus lane By Ben Brachfeld Posted on July 1, 2024 The city is again planning to build a bus lane along Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue, aiming to speed up commutes on the primary thoroughfare crossing the borough. The Department of Transportation (DOT) last month presented a proposal to Brooklyn’s Community Boards 2 and 8 that would transform the thoroughfare, one of the longest and most congested in the city, and speed up some of the city’s most laggard buses. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/flatbush-avenue-brooklyn-bus-lane-plan/ Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn’s primary thoroughfare, could see the addition of a bus lane. NYC DOT
July 4, 2024Jul 4 well, it doesn’t get anymore than … 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6qwjghAXkK/?igsh=MXZ6dDBiemhuZDFlcA==
July 4, 2024Jul 4 ^ That looks damn uncomfortable. The sacrifices people make for social media likes. My hovercraft is full of eels
July 4, 2024Jul 4 all about the mta conductor job — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8KXZc4goRV/?igsh=MXh0MmF1MHF1cXk3eA==
July 7, 2024Jul 7 mta bx metronorth stations news — Bronx Metro-North proposal receives vote of approval from City Planning Commission By Emily SwansonPosted on July 3, 2024 The wide-ranging Bronx Metro-North station plan was recently approved by the City Planning Commission, bringing the megaproject one step closer to final approval from the mayor. The plan now heads to the City Council for review. The proposal to build new stations in Morris Park, Hunts Point, Parkchester/Van Nest and Co-Op City has already been over six years in the making and was crafted with input from 16 city, state and federal agencies, as well as the general public. In addition to the new train stations, rezoning changes in those areas would pave the way for an estimated 7,500 new homes and 10,000 jobs in Morris Park and Parkchester/Van Nest. The plan aims to capitalize on proximity to existing large employers like Montefiore Hospital, Jacobi Medical Center, Calvary Hospital and Hutchinson Metro Center, since Morris Park and Hunts Point are already two of the city’s top job centers. more: https://www.bxtimes.com/bronx-metro-north-proposal-approval/
July 7, 2024Jul 7 $$$ troubles for the expensive ferries — Setting ‘$ale’: NYC Ferry looking to sell corporate naming rights to avoid sinking money troubles By Ben Brachfeld Posted on June 25, 2024 The Adams administration is looking for a corporate sponsor to buy naming rights for NYC Ferry, the aquatic transit service that has long been in the red financially. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-ferry-corporate-naming-rights-sale/
July 7, 2024Jul 7 They should do it for the subway too. It generates some more revenue and corporate ads look better than graffiti tagged trains.
July 10, 2024Jul 10 stuck in the heat! Third Avenue Bridge over Harlem River gets stuck after steel expands in oppressive heat By Ben Brachfeld Posted on July 9, 2024 more: https://www.amny.com/transit/third-avenue-bridge-over-harlem-river-gets-stuck-after-steel-expands-in-oppressive-heat/ The Third Avenue Bridge over the Harlem River was stuck in an open position for an hour and a half on Monday due to the oppressive heat. — Citizen
July 14, 2024Jul 14 laying subway el station track in cypress hills — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8IDJxzRJCT/?igsh=MTdkY2duZGs0M3d6aw==
July 21, 2024Jul 21 at least somebody is pushing back on the ny gov's fiasco -- EXCLUSIVE | City Comptroller Lander assembles legal team to challenge Hochul’s congestion pricing pause By Ben Brachfeld Posted on July 17, 2024 City Comptroller Brad Lander has assembled a legal team that is expected to announce litigation aimed at activating congestion pricing, the city’s fiscal watchdog exclusively told amNewYork Metro Wednesday. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/comptroller-lander-legal-challenge-hochul-congestion-pricing/
July 24, 2024Jul 24 9av elevated line history — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9m1mgdMI7-/?igsh=cjE5NnI1cXEyc2Nv
July 24, 2024Jul 24 he’s a living legend — 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Fee_-pTjB/?igsh=MXkxdDRtMW50YWp1cA==
July 27, 2024Jul 27 cleaning the trains — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9P4b5WAvTv/?igsh=dnRxY3phNnFrdTFt
July 27, 2024Jul 27 lincoln tunnel ‘catwalk’ — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C89TJZjxUfz/?igsh=MWN0dHdvN2R0eXZ4dA==
July 30, 2024Jul 30 nice while it lasted — MTA free bus pilot ending on Sept. 1, deemed a dud despite increased ridership By Ben BrachfeldPosted on July 29, 2024 The MTA’s yearlong free bus service pilot is set to unceremoniously end on Sept. 1, with the agency deeming the experiment a dud even though it generated increased ridership. Started last September, the MTA eliminated fares on five bus lines, one in each borough, as part of an experiment mandated by state lawmakers as part of the authority’s financial rescue package in 2023. The five lines chosen were the Bx18 in the Bronx, the B60 in Brooklyn, the M116 in Manhattan, the Q4 in Queens, and the S46/96 in Staten Island. Months after state legislators declined to extend the pilot in this year’s budget, and agency brass cast aspersions on it, the MTA has put out its initial findings. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-free-bus-pilot-ending-ridership/
July 30, 2024Jul 30 1 hour ago, mrnyc said: nice while it lasted — MTA free bus pilot ending on Sept. 1, deemed a dud despite increased ridership By Ben BrachfeldPosted on July 29, 2024 The MTA’s yearlong free bus service pilot is set to unceremoniously end on Sept. 1, with the agency deeming the experiment a dud even though it generated increased ridership. Started last September, the MTA eliminated fares on five bus lines, one in each borough, as part of an experiment mandated by state lawmakers as part of the authority’s financial rescue package in 2023. The five lines chosen were the Bx18 in the Bronx, the B60 in Brooklyn, the M116 in Manhattan, the Q4 in Queens, and the S46/96 in Staten Island. Months after state legislators declined to extend the pilot in this year’s budget, and agency brass cast aspersions on it, the MTA has put out its initial findings. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-free-bus-pilot-ending-ridership/ Good. “Free transit” is bad policy. Every dollar spent on making transit free is a dollar not spent on improving the service enough to meaningfully shift mode share. And like any rule there are exceptions, but bus lines in cities with good metros are definitely not a good use case for free transit. Why would we want to encourage riders to move from the lower operating cost subway to the higher operating cost bus? When is the last time I-71 turned a profit?
July 31, 2024Jul 31 yep pretty much daily subway sightings — 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9zw1rjh7Jp/?igsh=cHZvajFpOGE0bWQ0
July 31, 2024Jul 31 whoa boy — an nyc subway themed cafe in south korea 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C91wP-GJnhg/?igsh=b2V3eHBwNWVqNzlr
July 31, 2024Jul 31 interesting — i wondered about the closed or floundering and minimal subway station retail in most stations — In the depths of the Jackson Heights subway station, a cultural center emerges By Arun Venugopal Published Jul 29, 2024 … The agency has dozens of retail spaces it’s trying to fill, through traditional and less-traditional means. According to the MTA, there are 194 retail spaces scattered throughout the subway system. Of these, 53 are in operation, 19 are under construction and 64 are under negotiation. That leaves 58 spaces which an agency official said will be “marketed” over the next 15 months. more: https://gothamist.com/news/in-the-depths-of-the-jackson-heights-subway-station-a-cultural-center-emerges
July 31, 2024Jul 31 huuuuuge underestimate here for sure — but nice of mta to finally take any notice — MTA says nearly half of bus riders skip the fare, plans NYPD crackdown By Ramsey Khalifeh Published Jul 31, 2024 More than 2 million people ride the MTA’s buses every weekday — but nearly half of them don’t bother to pay, transit officials said on Wednesday. Roughly 47% of bus riders evaded the fareduring the first three months of 2024, according to MTA estimates. The agency’s leaders warned free rides on buses cost the MTA $300 million last year, and say the growing problem is worsening the MTA’s bleak financial picture. The MTA plans to respond aggressively by deploying more NYPD officers and additional MTA fare enforcement agents onto buses, spokesperson John McCarthy said. He also said the MTA needs “to come up with a new enforcement mechanism to deal with” the problem. more: https://gothamist.com/news/mta-says-nearly-half-of-bus-riders-skip-the-fare-plans-nypd-crackdown
August 3, 2024Aug 3 abandoned subway station at park south and 18st — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-K41Z1OtRj/?igsh=MXY3bGVhMHN4M2Njeg==
August 6, 2024Aug 6 gov hochul finds a little $ to do second ave utility work — Work to resume on Second Avenue Subway extension after $54M cash infusion from Hochul By Ben Brachfeld Posted on July 30, 2024 more: https://www.amny.com/transit/second-avenue-subway-extension-infusion-hochul/ The Second Avenue Subway tunnel between 110th and 120th streets, dug in the 1970s. Marc A. Hermann / MTA Edited August 6, 2024Aug 6 by mrnyc
August 7, 2024Aug 7 excellent -- Bronx City Council set to approve Bronx Metro-North rezoning to build housing around new stations By Ben Brachfeld Posted on August 6, 2024 The City Council is set to approve an ambitious rezoning proposal to develop thousands of new housing units around new Metro-North stations being built in the Bronx. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/city-council-approve-bronx-metro-north-rezoning/ Commuters wait to board a New Haven Line Metro-North train in July 2023. File Photo by Aliya Schneider
August 7, 2024Aug 7 meh -- sho me the money -- Hochul ‘massaging’ proposal in Albany to replace lost congestion pricing money By Ben BrachfeldPosted on August 6, 2024 More than two months after pausing congestion pricing, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday she is “massaging” a proposal through Albany to replace the money lost from the Manhattan toll freeze — though she is still vague on the details of how else to raise $15 billion for mass transit improvements. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/hochul-massaging-congestion-pricing-proposal-money/ A bus traveling under an unactivated congestion pricing toll gantry in Manhattan. Photo by Dean Moses
August 15, 2024Aug 15 mta bus drivers — 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-VCHcZAxOx/?igsh=bXFmb3hoNmlwbXl5
August 17, 2024Aug 17 hellz yes to dimes square chinatown — and we need more closing off streets like this to make public squares — 👍 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C95CGnfN5z1/?igsh=MTFnaXA5a3k3NW50dg==
August 19, 2024Aug 19 this is via nys sen. hoylman newsletter — bummer 🚍 Electrifying MTA Buses I joined the MTA, Assembly Member Rosenthal, City Planning Commissioner Garodnick and other government colleagues on a tour of the Michael J. Quill Bus Depot and the electric charging station in the Hudson River Park to discuss efforts to transition to a zero-emissions bus fleet by 2040. The MTA fleet consists of 15 electric buses, with 60 new buses on the way. Nearly 500 new buses are scheduled to enter service by 2026, but unfortunately, the recent “pause” of congestion pricing imperils the MTA’s ability to secure orders for nearly half of this total. In addition, timely orders are complicated by there being only one manufacturer currently producing electric buses in the U.S. to the MTA’s standards. This is yet another important reason why congestion pricing must proceed as soon as possible.
August 27, 2024Aug 27 the plot thickens — Congestion Pricing | New York lawmakers tell court Hochul has no authority to pause Manhattan toll By Ben Brachfeld Posted on August 26, 2024 Gov. Kathy Hochul legally has no authority under New York law to pause congestion pricing, a group of current and former New York lawmakers argued last week to a judge overseeing cases seeking to restart the waylaid Manhattan tolling program. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/congestion-pricing-hochul-authority-manhattan-toll-pause/
August 31, 2024Aug 31 more curbside chargers on the way — City will build 600 new curbside EV chargers across city through $15 million fed grant By Ben Brachfeld Posted on August 28, 2024 New York City will build 600 new electric vehicle chargers across the five boroughs after winning a $15 million federal grant, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Wednesday. The new Level 2 chargers, which can usually fully juice up an EV battery within 10 hours, are to be installed along the curbside in all five boroughs. City Hall says at least half of these chargers will be sited in “disadvantaged and low-income neighborhoods.” mire: https://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-building-curbside-ev-chargers-2024/ The city plans to deploy 600 new EV chargers across the five boroughs in the coming years. NYC DOT
September 1, 2024Sep 1 jjjjjjjjiiinnkkeeeess ! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-0hARoxnPM/?igsh=MWl0NWEwb3NoYWUzMw==
September 3, 2024Sep 3 for fall fun here is all the latest on transit station dining — Grand Central Has a Massive, New 400-Seat Restaurant. Will It Entice Consumers? Grand Brasserie opened over the weekend from an unheard of restaurant group by Emma Orlow Sep 3, 2024 more: https://ny.eater.com/2024/9/3/24231741/grand-brasserie-opening-restaurant-grand-central Grand Brasserie opens at Grand Central. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images
September 12, 2024Sep 12 meh — Gov. Hochul wants to lower congestion pricing from $15. The process could take years. By Stephen Nessen Published Sep 11, 2024 As the MTA’s congestion pricing scheme remains in limbo, state officials are mulling a simple question about the price of the Manhattan tolls: how low can they go? Since Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed the brakes on the program in June, she’s said the $15 base charge approved by the MTA “was too much for New Yorkers at this time." MTA officials arrived at the price after years of research and an exhaustive federal review process. The figure also complies with a 2019 state law that requires congestion pricing to bring in $1 billion a year for the MTA’s construction department. But experts warned that amending the fee structure could reboot a bureaucratic process that might kill any chance that the tolls will launch in the near future. Michael Gerrard, a Columbia Law School professor and director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, said Hochul would have a relatively straightforward path if she dropped the base fare to $9, because the MTA previously studied that price as part of the program’s environmental review. Any price lower than that could lead to major speed bumps. more: https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-wants-to-lower-congestion-pricing-from-15-the-process-could-take-years
September 18, 2024Sep 18 ok, but speed it up — NYC's IBX light rail line gets funding under MTA plan, but construction remains years off By Ramsey Khalifeh Published Sep 18, 2024 at 3:37 p.m. ET more: https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-ibx-light-rail-line-gets-funding-under-mta-plan-but-construction-remains-years-off
September 21, 2024Sep 21 riding post yankee games — 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_3KwULPKmU/?igsh=MWxzM2R2eTBndXF2bQ==
September 25, 2024Sep 25 what type of fare beater are you? https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9Suo7wP3th/?igsh=MWtuY2t1ZWV2ZHg1dg==
September 25, 2024Sep 25 just another day — 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-8Rsbav5sD/?igsh=bmxrZWd3dmtqNHJp
September 29, 2024Sep 29 Crabbie conservatives don't ride the subway out of fear, but real crabs do. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 17, 2024Oct 17 capping the cross bx — 👍 City advancing proposals to cap parts of Cross Bronx Expressway, add greenspace along the way By Ben Brachfeld Posted on October 16, 2024 New York is advancing proposals to cap portions of the Cross Bronx Expressway, hoping to reconnect communities separated by the road’s construction and correct historic harms wrought on Bronx communities by the Robert Moses-era highway. more: https://www.amny.com/new-york/bronx/city-proposals-cap-cross-bronx-expressway/ The Cross Bronx Expressway near Jerome Avenue. File photo/Adrian Childress A proposed cap over the Cross Bronx Expressway would connect Crotona and Walter Gladwin parks. NYC DOT
October 19, 2024Oct 19 feelin’ groovy? the wild contrast of the 59st bridge today & in 1912 — https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAi8i...VnODR5MjZwcHRq
October 20, 2024Oct 20 just another day — 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9kY-jtgaek/?igsh=bnRvejJzdHd4YThx
October 28, 2024Oct 28 the evolving history of how riders paid for the subway — https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBog8tEO_-o/?igsh=eXBuczJleTI3Y29s
October 30, 2024Oct 30 tunneling out of an ibx obstruction — MTA looking to dig tunnel underneath Queens cemetery for IBX light rail project By Ben Brachfeld Posted on October 29, 2024 The MTA says it is considering digging a tunnel underneath a Queens cemetery to carry the proposed Interborough Express (IBX) light rail line between Brooklyn and Queens, nine months after amNewYork Metro exposed the grave potential consequences of previous plans to run trams on the street. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-tunnel-queens-cemetery-ibx-light-rail/ The MTA now says it intends to run the Interborough Express through a tunnel under a Queens cemetery, following an amNewYork Metro investigation exposing the pitfalls of its alternative street-running proposal. File Photo by Paul Frangipane
October 30, 2024Oct 30 in other ibx news, an rfp went out — MTA releases RFP for engineering phase of Interborough Express Oct. 30, 2024 The RFP represents a major step in the design of the transformative transit project, which will connect communities in Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y., to 17 subway lines, 51 current bus routes and more. more: https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/infrastructure/press-release/55239344/metropolitan-transportation-authority-ny-mta-mta-releases-rfp-for-engineering-phase-of-interborough-express
November 5, 2024Nov 5 ayy ok — 😂 NYC officially decriminalizes jaywalking, ending a 66-year ban that was scarcely enforced By Ben Brachfeld Posted on October 31, 2024 Cross with the light, wherever you’d like! New York City has officially decriminalized jaywalking, giving a legal patina to a practice long adopted by virtually every Big Apple resident. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-officially-decriminalizes-jaywalking-ending-a-66-year-ban-that-was-scarcely-enforced/ New York City has officially decriminalized jaywalking. Photo via Getty Images
November 14, 2024Nov 14 dubious kathy is serious or that trump lets it happen — Congestion pricing | Hochul looks to roll out reduced Manhattan toll plan as GOP looks to Trump to stop it By Ben BrachfeldPosted on November 13, 2024 It’s rush hour for congestion pricing. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to revive congestion pricing this week, with tolls beginning by year’s end, while New York Republicans, fresh off national victories for president, the House and Senate, are urging President-elect Donald Trump to swiftly kill congestion pricing ahead of his inauguration in January. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/congestion-pricing-republicans-hochul-trump-inauguration/
November 22, 2024Nov 22 Congestion pricing could help finance a subway to LGA "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 24, 2024Nov 24 as we say a long goodbye to the metrocard, flashback to saying hello — jan 6, 1994 — https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAuMr3-NScn/?igsh=MXI5ZzJ3OTlrdzZybA==
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