Opinions
My Thoughts On The New York City Transit Riders Council Report
Yesterday afternoon I wrote about the New York City Transit Riders Council report which stated subway stations are in a state of disrepair. I had promised to come back later with my thoughts on the report so here I am.
Let me first take the time to thank everyone who was involved in collecting the data [...]
Editorial On LIRR Third Rail Project
Last month I wrote about the LIRR Third Rail project & how important it was to the overall transit infrastructure of Long Island. In Friday’s edition of Newsday, Jeffrey M. Zupan of the Regional Plan Association discussed the importance of the project in an editorial. Here is a small sample of it:
The recent announcement by [...]
MTA Plans & Finances Editorial
Yesterday’s edition of the New York Daily News had a very good editorial about the MTA’s “tunnel vision” in regards to their plans & finances. Here is the editorial:
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority gave the press a tour last week of a brand new mile-long excavation that’s supposed to turn the infamous Tunnel to Nowhere into [...]
Subway Groping Editorial
4 days ago I wrote an entry about an article that appeared in the New York Post about the MTA choosing not go through with their anti-groping advertising campaign. I personally felt the MTA was wrong in choosing not to go through with the ad campaign. A day later an editorial by Emily May & [...]
How Surprising, Promised Service Upgrades Get Shelved
In a move that will hardly surprise anyone, the MTA has officially shelved the service upgrades we were promised back in December as a reward for the fare hike that we were to endure. Daily News Transit Reporter Pete Donohue along with Kenneth Lovett has more on this:
The cash-strapped will not launch a $60 million [...]
Selfish Bastard
Should I be surprised about this story? (Matthew Sweeney; AMNY):
A man who jumped in front of a southbound E train in Manhattan Tuesday morning was passed over by the cars and then yelled at the conductor for not killing him.
“He jumped. The train ran over him,” a police spokeswoman said.
“He wasn’t injured at all. He [...]
A Sad Reality…….
Lets face it, the economy for just about everyone is in the dumps right now. We will most likely face only the second ever back to back fare increase in MTA history (the only occurrence being in 1980 & 1981) next year. The MTA Is strapped for cash & is desperate for any sort of [...]
LIRR Commuters Campaign President Calls Out The LIRR
I applaud LIRR Commuters Campaign President Peter Haynes who I feel accurately called out The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in a letter he recently sent to Newsday:
LIRR’s inflated sense of service
When a self-grading organization like the LIRR continually gives itself an “A” at the same time most commuters give it less than a [...]
