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De Blasio representatives spike plan to renovate subway stations
A plan to renovate some dilapidated subway stations around the city, including Penn Station, was put on ice Wednesday when the city’s representatives on the MTA board refused to vote...
Cops, MTA crack down on littering subway riders
Since fines for littering on the subway doubled to $100 in mid-September, cops have been cracking down on sloppy straphangers. MTA police issued 200 littering tickets between Sept. 14 and...
Here's proof that your subway ride is hell
Last week, subway commuters faced a tangle of delays, detours and cancellations. Electrical problems, switch problems, signal problems and a broken rail wreaked havoc on the A, B, C, D,...
MTA chief drops F-bomb on hot mic
MTA Chairman Joe Lhota was caught on a hot mic dropping an F-bomb during a board meeting on Wednesday. "As if I don't have enough f--king problems," he muttered after...
Group wants MTA boss Joe Lhota probed over lobbying
A government watchdog group is demanding that state investigators launch a probe into MTA Chief Joe Lhota's lobbying activities. Common Cause New York sent a letter to New York State...
Transit workers call on cops to help kick homeless, drunks off trains
City transit workers say there are so many passed-out drunks and snoozing homeless people on subway trains at the end of their lines that they need the NYPD’s help to...
MTA officials mad over extended 'state of emergency'
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials are furious that Gov. Cuomo has now extended the transit agency’s “state of emergency” designation for the fourth time, with board members saying chairman Joe Lhota...
Citizens Union won't endorse de Blasio for mayor
In a stunning slap at Mayor de Blasio, one of the city’s leading civic groups announced Monday that it is not making an endorsement in the mayor’s race for the...
The MTA is completely out of touch
New York City’s subways are crumbling. Delays cost the city $389 million a year in lost wages and productivity, according to city Comptroller Scott Stringer. Police have quit arresting turnstile-jumpers...
Subway delays are costing New Yorkers millions: study
The Big Apple’s aging, rotten subways are not just making riders late — but poor as well. Delayed straphangers lose a cumulative average of $1.2 million a workday in economic...
MTA removes seats from E train cars
E train riders, get ready to stand for that long commute home. The MTA has removed some seats from some of its E train cars to make more room for...
MTA wants to fix flaw in sleep-apnea rules
MTA Chairman Joe Lhota wants the agency to fix a major flaw in its sleep-apnea rules, which allow bus and train operators suspected of having the potentially deadly condition to...
Joe Lhota says MTA needs money for repairs pronto
MTA Chair Joe Lhota said Monday he doesn’t oppose Mayor de Blasio’s proposed “millionaire’s tax” to fund future subway fix-ups— but it does nothing to pay for the repairs that...
Even if it gets the subway fixed, the MTA is still broken
The state-run MTA has four new people in charge: one for “innovation and modernization,” one for day-to-day operations, one for big projects like the Second Avenue Subway and one —...
Subways may shut down more overnight for repairs
Straphangers can expect to see more subway lines shut down overnight for repairs, MTA Chairman Joe Lhota said Sunday — while vowing to find creative ways to get the funding....
Trump's trans misread and other comments
Reporter: Trump Misread Transgender Ban Politics In “short-circuiting a Pentagon process to decide how to integrate transgender troops,” President Trump “has increased the chances that he will not get his...
MTA rips de Blasio for apparently holding a subway train
Transit officials are investigating why a packed subway train was delayed by a news conference Mayor de Blasio held in the station, MTA Chairman Joe Lhota said Thursday. Lhota called...
Cuomo will let companies name subway stops — for a price
New York companies will get naming rights to subway station if they contribute at least $600,000 for upkeep, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. "We want the private sector as full...
MTA says riders deserve a break from fare hikes
No fare. The MTA should put the brakes on future subway fare hikes because it can't keep asking beleaguered commuters to foot the bill for the increasingly crummy system, the...
Lhota's big plan to fix the subway
MTA Chairman Joe Lhota stepped up to the plate Tuesday and uttered the words that neither Gov. Cuomo nor Mayor de Blasio would use: “Hold me accountable,” he says, for...