Slowest Bus Routes in NYC? And the Awards Go To …
If you need to get somewhere fast in New York, don’t take the MTA’s M42 bus. You should also probably avoid the B44 and the M4. Each of the three bus lines has won awards for service, but not for the kind they’d want to broadcast to the city.
The NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives today gave out three awards for poor bus service in the Big Apple.
Drum roll, please.
L Train Real-Time Subway Screens Reach Bedford Ave Station
In February, NYC Transit installed video screens on the platform in the Myrtle-Wyckoff station in Brooklyn, showing the locations of every L train on the line, updated every 15 seconds. And now we know from the Twitter machine that the screens have arrived at Bedford Avenue. NYC Transit posted these photos, and we’re told the screens have been installed at various points throughout the station.
The screens cull data from the L line’s computerized operating system, which tracks exact train locations and then shows them advancing (or not!) along the screen.
If the pilot program goes well, it may be expanded to other stations. The MTA also points out this is part of new MTA Chairman Jay Walder’s plan to bring “accurate arrival information and modern fare technology” to riders.
Manhattan Bridge Subway Lines to Be Disrupted
Attention riders of the B, D, N and Q lines…
Find another way to get to your destination because for approximately EIGHT weekends, you won’t be riding on those train lines when it comes to crossing the Manhattan bridge.
Talk of East River Tolls to return...
So it seems the idea of putting tolls on the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, and probably the Queensborough Bridge has made it back into the news again.
Get ready to pay out the <bleep> everytime you get in your car and want to get across the East River (which will especially suck for delivery drivers). Something tells me this is only going to force more people to get on the subway, thus crowding them even further during rush hour than they already are.
THANKS MTA!
1 out of 4 weekday and half of weekend subway trains are late shows new data
One out of four weekday subway trains, and half the trains on weekends, are late or fail to make at least some stops, new transit data released Monday shows.
The grim statistics are the result of a less forgiving method of reporting delays by NYC Transit, which previously gave itself a pass for service changes and disruptions planned to allow major construction and maintenance projects to proceed.
The less generous method provides a more accurate reflection of the type of service riders are seeing - or not seeing - on the rails, officials said.
M.T.A. Weighs Lower Fares During Off-Peak Hours
The new chairman of New York’s transit system is looking to introduce a pricing policy that would offer passengers discounts to ride late at night and on weekends, an abrupt break from a century-old fare model that could be the city’s biggest transportation revolution since the demise of the token.
This. Especially seeing as my last name starts with an S.
I never could draw these very well.
Totally, because my name begins with S too.
I definitely remember doing this in school.
Too many V...not enough F
On my way home from work, I took the V since it was the 1st train to arrive at Rockefeller Center on the track that it along with the F run on. I figured I can just transfer at Broadway-Lafayette for an F that would surely be right behind it.
Lo and behold, 2 V trains come before an F which was packed thus forcing me to wait even longer before a 2nd F arrived.
Something needs to be done - like alternating the train arrivals so the opposite train is never far behind when they are on the same line.
Sick passenger
Riding the F train to work this morning, It was held up for a sick passenger. Thankfully there were some good Samaritans who helped the woman off the train quickly and attended to her until assistance arrived.
And surprisingly the train didn’t get held up too long which is always a good thing.
With the trains not working and the workers attempting a civil protest, maybe I should consider learning how to ride a unicycle instead of taking the bus and train. Although not sure how safe a unicycle is on the bridges.
