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Subway

OMNY Complaints Mount as MTA Still Working Out Bugs in New System

May 20, 2025, 7:56 p.m.May 21, 2025, 8:15 a.m.

Commuters say they are running into delays on being billed for transit trips. The MTA insists kinks will be ironed out by the end of the year.

A commuter uses their MetroCard at Union Square.

MTA

MetroCard Holdouts Cling to Slivers of Plastic Despite Tap-and-Go OMNY-presence

April 30, 2025, 11:55 a.m.April 30, 2025, 11:55 a.m.

As card machines go the way of the token, officials say a third of riders are reluctant to give up the now old-school swiping method.

Commuters wait in a long line during the evening rush outside the Staten Island ferry terminal.

MTA

Staten Islanders Suffer From Bus Slowdown and Increasing Wait Times

April 23, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 24, 2025, 1:04 p.m.

Commuters in the oft-neglected borough say they are missing school and church because of buses that can’t seem to find the fast lane.

Subway

Notes From the Underground: A Look at Subway Cars New and Old

April 14, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 14, 2025, 2:34 p.m.

The MTA wants to spend a big chunk of its next capital budget on train cars — which would be the most significant upgrade in decades. But how well do you know what’s already on the tracks?

MTA Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper speaks at an agency board meeting in Lower Manhattan.

Subway

‘Not a Game’: MTA Brass Counter Trump Insults and Threats With Facts and Figures

March 26, 2025, 5:38 p.m.March 26, 2025, 5:59 p.m.

Using a “professional, fact-based approach,” transit officials highlighted that felonies in the subway system last year were down — while acknowledging that assaults have risen in the past six years.

Commuters packed onto an A train during the morning commute.

Transit

Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief

March 24, 2025, 4:00 p.m.April 4, 2025, 3:26 p.m.

One transit authority board member called Sean Duffy’s comments “a real slap in the face” as the MTA tries to get back on track.

An MTA police officer watches people enter a turnstile at Penn Station.

Transit

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

March 19, 2025, 1:29 p.m.March 19, 2025, 8:56 p.m.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said the feds will cut funding to New York City Transit if they don’t get information on how New York will reduce subway crime.

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at an MTA board meeting inside Grand Central Madison about her fight to project congestion pricing.

Traffic

Hochul: We Won’t Be ‘Steamrolled’ by Trump on Congestion Pricing

Feb. 26, 2025, 5:15 p.m.Feb. 27, 2025, 3:46 p.m.

The governor showed up at a Manhattan MTA board meeting to talk tough and promise that New York will fight a federal shutdown of the tolling plan with “orderly resistance.”

Transit

Trump Claws Back Approval for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan

Feb. 19, 2025, 12:43 p.m.Feb. 21, 2025, 4:35 p.m.

MTA and Hochul seek court intervention following Federal Highway istration's withdrawal of for the tolling program, while president declares: "LONG LIVE THE KING!"

The MTA installed new turnstile guards at the City Hall-Brooklyn Bridge station.

New York City Transit

Turnstile Armor Is MTA’s Latest Defense Against Farebeaters

Feb. 12, 2025, 5:43 p.m.Feb. 12, 2025, 10:00 p.m.

The new metal sheaths first appeared Tuesday at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, the latest line of defense thwarting chronic evasion of the $2.90 cost to enter subways.

New York City Transit

OMNY Complaints Mount as MTA Still Working Out Bugs in New System

MetroCard Holdouts Cling to Slivers of Plastic Despite Tap-and-Go OMNY-presence

Staten Islanders Suffer From Bus Slowdown and Increasing Wait Times

Notes From the Underground: A Look at Subway Cars New and Old

‘Not a Game’: MTA Brass Counter Trump Insults and Threats With Facts and Figures

Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

Hochul: We Won’t Be ‘Steamrolled’ by Trump on Congestion Pricing

Trump Claws Back Approval for Congestion Pricing in Manhattan

Turnstile Armor Is MTA’s Latest Defense Against Farebeaters

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