Subway Platform Safety Doors Slow to Get on Track
The MTA is considering a proposal to install glass partitions on platforms to prevent commuters from falling onto train tracks.
Tag: MTA
via Bensonhurst Bean
Grappling With N Train Pain
Commuters are losing patience – and sleep – over platforms closed for renovation in a stretch of Brooklyn.
via New York Daily News
The Subway Stinks in Brooklyn
A sewage leak is sickening riders at the Myrtle/Wyckoff L train station in Bushwick.
G Train Growing Pains
For many subways riders, a recent derailment underscored the G train’s increasing importance – and vulnerability.
Subway Help is on the Way
Help Point intercoms, which offer subway information or emergency help with the push of a button, have arrived on platforms in four Bronx stations.
Tunnel Repairs ‘R’ on Track
R train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan won't return for another year because of tunnel repairs necessitated by Sandy. But the feds are paying for most of the project.
via New York Daily News
Vendors Call Bus Plan a Sell Out
Vendors along Harlem's famed 125th Street fear the introduction of Select Bus Service will make it harder for them to do business.
via Explain the Plan
Inside Brooklyn’s Bat Cave
Squatters and graffiti artists turned an old MTA power plant along the Gowanus Canal into their own playground, named after Batman's old haunt.