Category: MTA

Fair Fares transit discount program finally compatible with OMNY for trial period

OMNY machines where a select group of Fair Fares users will be able to tap payment

May. 1, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld MTA riders using Fair Fares can finally start tapping into the discounted system using OMNY, with the transit agency and the city’s Social Services department launching a pilot program this week for select users of the low-income transit program. Fair Fares users, who are eligible for a half-price…

Pregnant bus drivers blast MTA over lack of reasonable accommodations

Pregnant MTA bus driver Latoya Christian

Apr. 30, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld

Pregnant bus drivers working for the MTA who are suing the transit agency for allegedly skirting requirements to provide reasonable accommodations publicly blasted the authority Tuesday for its alleged failures.

Op-ed | MTA maps out the road ahead through climate change

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber at climate change resiliency announcement, wearing orange vest

Apr. 28, 2024 By Janno Lieber Climate change is always top of mind for a lot of us, and not just because we’re a week from Earth Day. I often talk about mass transit being the antidote to climate change. The MTA network allows the New York region to have the lowest carbon footprint…

MTA hosts open house in Jamaica to showcase Queens Bus Network Redesign proposal

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Apr. 24, 2024 By Athena Dawson Representatives from the MTA and DOT gathered at the King Manor Museum in Jamaica last week to host an open house meeting focusing on the MTA’s Queens Bus Network Redesign proposal. The open house ran from 5-8:30 p.m. on Apr. 17. Throughout the night, a handful of residents trickled…
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These 13 NYC subway stations will receive ‘Re-NEW-vation’ upgrades and cleaning this spring and summer

MTA workers repairing cracked subway station platform during 'Re-NEW-vation' repair program

Apr. 24, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Thirteen subway stations are about to get a healthy dose of spring cleaning and other improvements in the MTA’s latest “Re-NEW-vation” round, as announced Tuesday. The “Re-NEW-vation” program is the MTA’s concentrated effort at providing quick fixes at subway stations throughout the system — such as performing repairs,…

MTA’s free bus experiment will end after not being reauthorized in state budget

Bus riding along Manhattan

Apr. 21, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The free rides will soon be over. The MTA’s experiment in fare-less city bus service will soon come to an unceremonious end, after Albany lawmakers did not reauthorize it in the newly-enacted state budget. One MTA bus in each borough has been fare-free since September as part of…