The “tap-and-go” feature of OMNY working at a subway turnstile is now being rolled out for seniors using reduced fare metro cards. Seniors can convert to OMNY upon receipt of the new MetroCard, or hang onto their new white plastic card for three more years. ( Photo: Courtesy of MTA) Slow Rollout: MTA Issuing Last of Reduced Fare MetroCards for Seniors, Officially Transitioning to OMNY Senior citizens are receiving their last reduced-fare MetroCard, as the MTA officially plans to put OMNY in the hands of... News 05 Aug 2024 | 03:49
A rendering of the planned 2nd Phase of the Second Avenue subway extension, which can resume inching forward after Governor Kathy Hochul announced $54 million in state funding for the project. The price tag was previously covered by congestion pricing, which she indefinitely paused. ( Photo: MTA ) Stalled Second Avenue Subway Expansion Inches Forward, After $54M State Allocation The Second Avenue subway expansion project will resume again, after Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she had managed... News 31 Jul 2024 | 06:46
MTA Going Your Way: Times Square Station, 42nd Street and Broadway. Students will soon have green OMNY cards to replace the old MetroCards, which only allowed free travel between 5:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. The new cards, starting in Septmember, can be swiped for up to four free rides per day, 24/7. ( Photo: Brian Berger) NYC School Kids Will Have Access to Free Subway Rides 24/7 Starting in September Going to school via mass transit is going to get a whole lot easier for students starting in September. Mayor Eric Adams,... News 29 Jul 2024 | 11:38
At the east side of Broadway entrance to the Columbus Circle subway station, a current turnstile array provides little challenge to fare evaders who wish to jump over or scoot under the turnstiles, or wait for someone to exit through the emergency gate. Photo: Ralph Spielman MTA: Fare Evasion Expected to Top $700M in 2023 With fare evasion expected to top $700 million once all the figures for 2023 are tallied, the MTA is experimenting with new... News 04 Feb 2024 | 05:35
The congestion pricing zone is set, but not the price motorists will have to pay to enter anywhere in Manhattan below 60th Street starting next spring. An MTA committee is mulling prices and exemptions prior to the new toll going into effect. Photo: Community Board 8 Congestion Pricing Details Begin to Emerge as MTA Committee Wrestles with Exemptions The daily struggle just to get subway and bus riders from here to there can easily overshadow the MTA’s new push for a larger... News 10 Oct 2023 | 05:58
Second Avenue Subway’s 86th Street Station ( Photo Credit: MTA via Wiki Commons ) With Fare Hikes on the Way, the MTA Says It’s On Sound Financial Footing Though 2027 For the first time in 20 years, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has projected a balanced budget for five... News 19 Jul 2023 | 03:43
There have apparently been negotiations between Madison Square and Italian construction developer ASTM about demolishing the Theater at MSG on the Eighth Ave side of the arena to build a new grand entrance to Penn Station. So far no sign of any substantive talks between MSG, the MTA and the other railroads that actually use the rail hub below the garden. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Fireworks Erupt at Planning Commission Hearing on MSG as Dolan’s Team Blasts MTA Report The clock is ticking. The apparently tense negotiations between Madison Square Garden and the three railroad giants that use... News 09 Jun 2023 | 10:12
The MTA wants to begin installing a new class of turnstiles with sliding panels that it hopes will defeat the turnstile jumpers on subways who cost the MTA $285 million last year. Photo: Marc A. Hermann/MTA Unfair: Fare beaters skip out on $690 million to MTA in past yr. The Pandemic really tore at the fabric of New York. Bad behavior of all sorts has proliferated. Restaurateurs struggle to... News 19 May 2023 | 03:55
Congestion pricing, which supporters say will cut traffic jams and improve air quality, is moving closer to reality but it still has critics who call it an unfair double tax on commuters. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Congestion Pricing: It Could Be Here By This Time Next Year After MTA, Feds OK Plans The political gridlock that has stalled congestion pricing in Manhattan for more than four years may, finally, be clearing.... News 12 May 2023 | 12:49
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber (center) and LIRR Interim President Catherine Rinaldi (back to camera) visited the LIRR’s Central Control operations in Jamaica on March 1, as complaints about the new operation and schedules mounted. Photo: MTA Chaotic Start to New LIRR Service to Grand Central Madison, MTA Acknowledges The first few days of the new LIRR service to and from Grand Central Madison have gone less than smoothly, with constantly... News 06 Mar 2023 | 12:05
Grand Central Madison as it prepared to open in late December. Photo: Mosaic. (Marc A. Hermann / MTA) ( Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Authority) LIRR to Begin Full Service to Grand Central Madison on Feb. 27th with 296 Trains Daily The much delayed full service Long Island Railroad at the new Grand Central Madison terminal will begin on Feb. 27, the MTA... News 13 Feb 2023 | 11:08
Governor Kathy Hochul steps off the Long Island Rail Road into the brand new Grand Central Madison Terminal after the inaugural, 17 minute ride on Jan. 25 from Jamaica. She called the new East Side Access terminal a “major milestone” for mass transit. Photo: Gov. Kathy Hochul Twitter. LIRR’S Much Delayed $11.2B East Side Terminal Finally Opens After years of delays, the first Long Island Railroad (LIRR) passenger trains connecting to the brand new Grand Central Madison... News 27 Jan 2023 | 01:52
Manhattan’s Central Business District, where drivers will be subject to new tolls. Map via the MTA A Congestion Pricing Primer Excessive traffic may become little more than a distant memory in much of Manhattan, if congestion pricing plans prove to... News 26 Oct 2022 | 03:54
Governor Kathy Hochul announces on Tuesday, May 31 that the East Side Access project from Long Island to Grand Central would open before the end of the year. With Rep. Carolyn Maloney (left), who was instrumental in obtaining federal funding for the project. Photo: Ralph Spielman Introducing Grand Central Madison In a press conference on Tuesday morning, held in the almost-completed 700,000-square-foot Long Island Rail Road terminal... News 02 Jun 2022 | 10:19
A brand new entrance at Times Square will benefit many subway riders. From here, accessible direct access is available to the Times Square Shuttle via a brand-new state of the art elevator. Photo: Ralph Spielman A New Entrance to the City’s Busiest Subway Station With a fully accessible ADA-compliant MTA Times Square Shuttle, a much-needed link in the revitalized facility opened on... News 18 May 2022 | 11:30
