Patrick Gallahue
The Archive
SON OF A GLITCH! MTA IS OUT 74G
August 13, 2008 | 7:59amRegular straphangers took the MTA for a $74,000 ride by accident - in addition to the $800,000 authorities say a trio of scammers bilked from the agency. A suspected software...
THE HOOTERS STATION?
August 8, 2008 | 7:53amThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority is exploring expanded corporate sponsorships, leading to speculation it may rename subway stations after commercial backers. "We haven't come to any conclusions yet. I think you...
IT'S 'GRUNGE CENTRAL' STATIONS FOR BX. RIDERS
August 7, 2008 | 8:08amThe Bronx is turning subway riders' stomachs. A transit-advocacy group issued its hall of shame for subway stations yesterday, and two of the worst three surveyed were in the borough....
CATCHING A LATE FLIGHT
August 6, 2008 | 7:56amMajor US airlines reported more than 25 percent of all flights arrived late in the first half of the year and local airports experienced even worse results. Of the country's...
MTA ROLLS OUT POSTERS VS. PERVS
August 6, 2008 | 7:56amNew York City Transit is finally moving against perverts who use crowded trains as an opportunity to grope women. Weeks ago, The Post exclusively reported that agency officials were holding...
PA TO DEFY FEDS ON AIRPORT BIDDING PLAN
August 5, 2008 | 8:25amThe Port Authority and the feds are headed for a dogfight over a Bush administration plan to auction slots at area airports. The PA, which runs Kennedy, Newark and La...
LUXE JUMBO JET'S JFK DEBUT
August 2, 2008 | 7:38amThe world's largest passenger airliner - complete with a bar, showers and even a spa - made its maiden commercial voyage to US soil yesterday. PHOTO GALLERY: Airbus At JFK...
MTA SUB-WEIGHS ALTERNATIVE
August 1, 2008 | 8:14amThe MTA is going to study alternatives to station entrances for the Second Avenue Subway after Upper East Siders battled over a midblock gateway on 72nd Street. Residents complained, and...
'W' - AS IN WORST SUBWAY AROUND
July 30, 2008 | 7:48amThe W is the worst subway line in the system, a new report claims. The lower Manhattan-to-Astoria local scored a weak 70 cents - out of a possible $2 -...
METROCARD MESS
July 30, 2008 | 7:48amFor the second straight day, malfunctions disrupted credit- and debit-card purchases at MetroCard vending machines, rejecting riders who tried to pay with plastic. Worse, some unlucky riders got charged for...
DRIVERS HIT THE BRAKES
July 29, 2008 | 7:24amWith the price of gasoline skyrocketing, Americans drove nearly 10 billion fewer miles in May than in the same month last year - part of a 29.8 billion-mile decrease for...
300+ SURVIVE JET DIVE
July 26, 2008 | 7:47amA jumbo jet bound for Melbourne, Australia, was forced to make an emergency landing in the Philippines yesterday after a massive hole opened up in the side of the aircraft...
MTA 'DOUBLE'-CROSSES RIDERS WITH TWO HIKES
July 24, 2008 | 7:46amThe subway fare is accelerating faster than a runaway express, as the MTA yesterday announced two fare hikes in the next 30 months. Straphangers are due to get slammed by...
GOV: NOT SO FAST ON NEW FARE HIKE
July 23, 2008 | 8:02amGov. Paterson yesterday ordered the MTA to go back to the drawing board to avert a proposed 8 percent fare hike. Forced to close a $700 million gap, the MTA...
HIKE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
July 22, 2008 | 7:30amThe MTA's next fare hike is on the express track. Massive financial shortfalls could force the cash-strapped agency to hit commuters with another fare and toll boost in July 2009,...
4 SHAME ON WORST SUBWAY
July 22, 2008 | 7:30amThe No. 4 Lexington Avenue so-called express is the slowest line in the subway system with a pathetic 79.7 percent on-time average, according to a new survey by New York...
CARMAKERS' HYBRID HELP FOR TAXICABS
July 17, 2008 | 7:17amMajor automakers are jumping aboard the city's plan to make its yellow cabs green. Amid concerns there will not be enough hybrids available to meet the city's requirement that all...
POSTERS RUB MTA WRONG
July 15, 2008 | 7:32amCity transit officials have prepared a campaign to combat deviants who grope or molest women on the subway - but have been sitting on it because of fears the ads...
PEDICABS GONE WILD
July 14, 2008 | 7:43amThe rickshaw racket continues to be hell on wheels more than a year after the city passed a law regulating the pedicab industry. Legal jockeying between the Department of Consumer...
NEW PATH ON THOROUGHFARES
July 12, 2008 | 8:08amIn just a few months, getting around Midtown will be a whole new experience. The Transportation Department is narrowing streets, widening sidewalks, and creating pedestrian plazas and bicycle lanes in...