The Great Subway Race of 1967
THE GREAT SUBWAY RACE OF 1967 See a 5-minute preview video here: https://vimeo.com/212423979 Fifty years ago this month an M.I.T. computer whiz kid named Peter…
L Train Shutdown Charette
https://www.vanalen.org/events/l-train-shutdown-charette/ As neighborhoods along the L train brace for an interruption in service of unprecedented scale, this fast-paced competition asks interdisciplinary teams to propose implementable…
Tour Fulton Center Station
Walk with Projjal Dutta, Director of Sustainability Initiatives at the MTA, from the shuttered South Ferry station to Fulton Center station, a gleaming new transit center for downtown New York.
A Lasting Legacy: Historic Preservation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Learn more about New York City’s Transit system and its history with this talk by MTA Project Administrator Hollie Wells and Historic Preservationist Sara McIvor!
Subway Reefs: Sea Turtles on the 7
Come learn how NYC subway cars can help provide homes for marine life!
Organized by NYC H2O, hosted by the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College.
Discussion: Transportation and the Second Avenue Subway
Transportation and the Second Avenue Subway Wednesday, January 8, 2014 / 6:30 PM TICKETS ARE FREE; CLICK HERE TO RSVP In…
NYC income inequality mapped out by subway lines
By using subway stations as an input to the data-set, we are given an alarming image of how often and steeply the average household incomes fluctuate as you travel throughout NYC.
MTA to roll out interactive subway maps
By the end of the year, the MTA has announced it will install interactive, touch-screen maps for helping travelers and commuters navigate the city’s latticework…
New safety feature could soon improve your commute
The goal of any public transit administration is to increase ridership without jeopardizing safety and efficiency. The question is whether the installation of these doors will improve this….and the overall outlook for the MTA.
Art and Architecture of the Subway
Municipal Art Society presents a tour featuring the art, architecture and history of New York’s subway system.
Moving closer to green: the transportation vision of Projjal Dutta
MTA’s Director of Sustainability Projjal Dutta gave a presentation to City Atlas covering density, efficiency, and a vision of a future with more sustainable transportation.
Vote For Best New MTA App
What’s the most useful transit-related app out there? The MTA needs your help to find out. Voting continues through 5 PM Wednesday 1/11 for the best…
Projjal Dutta
“New York is livable–it is more than livable, it’s wonderful — because of density. And not just the density of people, but I think the density of opportunity.”
De-crowding the L, NYC 3rd Most Artistic City, Pilot Study Uses Mussels to Naturally Clean Bronx River
MTA reports that L trains should be less crowded after additional weekend trains are added, and a new signaling system should be finished early next…
NYC’s most-used turnstile- Guess Where it is
The most-used turnstile of the most-used transportation system in the country.
Break through on Second Avenue Subway
Workers completed tunneling for the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway on Sept. 22, 2011, when the project’s tunnel boring machine reached the Lexington Av-63 St station, breaking into the existing subway system.
MTA Adds Giant New Touchscreen That Tells You Where Delays Are
Hands-On With New York’s On the Go Mobile Station, a 47-inch Touchscreen Subway Map.
Creating Immense Amounts of Kinetic Energy from Speeding Subway Trains
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