Archive for June, 2015

Service Diversions 06-26-15

Get a start on your weekend travel plans as I have just updated the Service Diversions through all of next week. Make sure to follow @TransitBlogger on Twitter by clicking the button in the sidebar as I am using it more often. Also if you are into indie music make sure to follow @IndMusicReview & […]


MTA Names New SI Railway Head

The MTA’s Staten Island Railway has a new head & his name is Stapleton native & 30 year MTA veteran Douglas Connett. Vincent Barone of Staten Island Live has more in this report: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has named a new head of the Staten Island Railway. Douglas Connett, a Stapleton native and 30-year veteran […]


LIRR To Add More Cameras On New Trains

In what will be a huge blow to the privacy rights of many, the MTA Long Island Rail ROad has announced it will be adding even more cameras on its new car fleet that is scheduled to debut in 2018. Here is more via Alfonso A. Castillo of Newsday: LIRR officials upped the ante on […]


Service Diversions 06-19-15

Get a start on your weekend travel plans as I have just updated the Service Diversions through all of next week. Make sure to follow @TransitBlogger on Twitter by clicking the button in the sidebar as I am using it more often. Also if you are into indie music make sure to follow @IndMusicReview & […]


Bx5 Weekend Service Extended To Bay Plaza

Starting this September, MTA NYC Transit will extend weekend service on the Bx5 from Pelham Bay Park to Bay Plaza. Here is more on the change: Beginning September 6, 2015, MTA New York City Transit will extend weekend Bx5 bus service from Pelham Bay Park to the Bay Plaza Shopping Center. The extension on weekends […]