State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has improved security despite delays and cost overruns, but says the transit system is still at risk for a terror attack. A new report by DiNapoli’s office says the MTA has completed 11 planned security projects and parts of five remaining ones. They include reinforcing bridges, [...]
An MTA Human Resources staffer is under investigation for taking cash payments from job hunters in a pay-to-work scheme, the Daily News has learned. Ronica Ganesh, 28, is suspected of promising applicants she could snag them entry-level subway mechanic positions for at least $1,000, sources said. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority inspector general’s office and Manhattan [...]
MTA brass are considering a fare hike as early as this year as they struggle to fill a $750 million budget gap, The Post has learned. Increasing the cost of a ride on subways, buses and commuter rails in 2010 is just one option out of many that officials have put on the table to [...]
Dozens of concerned straphangers headed down to Chelsea Thursday night as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority held its fifth and final public hearing over proposed service cuts. More than 150 people signed up to speak inside the auditorium at Manhattan’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Many who attended were upset with the agency’s plan to get rid [...]
The West Side Rail Yards project will go on, despite the loss of one of its partners. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Monday that financial giant Goldman Sachs has pulled out of the $1 billion deal to redevelop the Hudson rail yards. However, the plans are expected to go on unchanged. The MTA is delaying [...]
A politician from Long Island has become the first Republican to throw his hat in the ring for Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat. Bruce Blakeman announced his campaign Sunday. He is a former presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature. He’s also a former commissioner of the Port Authority, and his ex-wife is Metropolitan Transportation Authority [...]
The MTA has gone 2.0, launching an overhauled Web site Wednesday for the first time in seven years. “Score one for the MTA,” said Gene Russianoff, of the Straphangers Campaign. The site, mta.info, was designed in-house and is far improved, including: • A trip planner and real-time service alerts on the homepage • Data freely [...]
Howard H. Roberts Jr., the avuncular boss of New York City’s buses and subways, resigned Wednesday after a tenure of two and a half years. His departure raised few eyebrows inside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where officials had been speculating about Mr. Roberts’s fate for weeks, according to several people familiar with the situation. Mr. [...]
It could be a long day on buses and subways, as transit workers are planning a so-called “Day of Outrage” against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over contract issues. Rallies are planned for today in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Unofficially, there have been reports that transit workers are planning to slow down service or follow a “work [...]
Opponents of the Brooklyn arena planned for the New Jersey Nets have filed a lawsuit to overturn an agreement to sell 8 acres of railyards to the arena’s developer. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan state Supreme Court. It seeks to overturn a vote by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to sell the railyards to [...]
