New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer released the results of an audit, conducted between June and November 2016, confirming that stations which had wireless services installed in the first four phases of the project are operating successfully.
It may have taken $4.5 billion and 100 years, but the Second Avenue Subway (part of it, anyway) is finally here. The line’s opening weekend proved extremely popular with commuters—check out photos.
While the rest of us will be spending our New Year’s Eve elsewhere, Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning on spending his on the inaugural New Year’s Eve ride for the long-awaited Second Avenue Subway.
For those who think they have better ways of designing the city’s subway system than the MTA, this game’s for you. Just try to beat the MTA’s score of a B.
Could it be?! MTA Chair and CEO Tom Prendergast said the agency was able to compress the train’s testing schedule so that it can keep to its promise of opening the line in 2016.
Brace yourselves, commuters: Another subway tunnel—the Clark St Tube, connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan—will be shut down for 56 weekends to facilitate repairs on the Sandy-damaged tube.
After a Friday afternoon visit to the project site, Governor Cuomo took to Twitter and stated that he was "cautiously optimistic" that the project would hit its January 1st deadline.
In nothing short of a modern miracle, the MTA is on track to bring Wi-Fi to each of the city’s 279 underground subway stations by year’s end. It’s one of the few breaks New York’s caught during this dumpster fire of a year.
The base fare was previously increased in March 2015 from $2.50 to $2.75, but with increased overcrowding and delays, each fare hike gets all the more frustrating for commuters.
After ideas of closing Manhattan’s 14th Street, and Williamsburg’s Grand Avenue to cars were floated around, Bedford Avenue is also now being considered.
They say when one door closes, another one opens—and in this case, those doors are on the L train. The agency will increase service along the line to help overcrowding during M train repairs.
After six years out of service, the W train is back in business: the train resumed service this morning as part of the MTA’s larger plans for the Second Avenue Subway.
MTA’s recent data shows that weekday subway delays were up 21 percent in August compared to the same period last year. This isn’t the most shocking news, however understanding the causes behind overcrowding may put things into perspective.
About 60 residents and three business owners will have to be relocated by the MTA while the agency conducts repairs on an elevated section of the M train tracks at the Bushwick Cut redevelopment site near the Myrtle Avenue stop.
The MTA says it’ll make good on its promise that the Second Avenue Subway will be running by the end of December, and new footage of testing offers a glimpse inside one of the stations.
There are just two months left in 2016, which also means there are two months left for the MTA to get its you-know-what together and start operating the Second Avenue Subway.
Despite recent setbacks, U.S. representative Carolyn Maloney has "no doubt" that the project will finish by its December deadline. She evn went as far as to give the MTA an A+ on its latest report card.
The MTA has been working to shave down narrow tunnels to allow larger (mostly lettered) trains to pass through. The agency says that this won't affect its December deadline.
