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Tim Minton, the MTA’s communications director, said the system tracks fare evasion to figure out how much money the subway isn’t collecting. “We’re using it essentially as a counting tool ...
In August 2016, the MTA announced that it had initiated Operation Track Sweep, an aggressive plan to dramatically reduce the amount of trash on the tracks and in the subway environment. This was expected to reduce track fires and train delays.
This new MTA subway delay tracker won't make your train come faster, but it may help legitimize your pain.
In October 2010, the developers of the buses' GPS devices implemented the MTA system's first bus-tracking app, which monitored buses along the M16 and M34 routes. This evolved into the current web app, which originally tracked buses along the B63 route in Brooklyn when it started in February 2011.
The collision occurred around 3:00 p.m. EST when a northbound 1 train, train 1427, was switching from the express to the local track and sideswiped by train 1345. Two cars of train 1345 derailed while train 1427 had three cars derail.
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using a novel algorithm called Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR, which analyzes multiple photos of space ...
Track Issue May Have Caused Coney Island Train Derailment: MTA F trains were stopped in both directions in Brooklyn after a train derailment in Brooklyn, authorities said. Emily Rahhal , Patch Staff
The subway's rolling stock have operated under various companies: the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit (BMT), and Independent Subway System (IND), all of which have since merged into the New York City Transit Authority.
See It: Dog Lost In Subway Reunites With MTA Rescuer Lucy, a support dog, ran off Saturday and spent hours crisscrossing the subway system, ducking trains from Chambers Street to 28th Street.
The MTA has plans to upgrade much of New York City Subway system from a fixed block signaling system to one with communications-based train control (CBTC) technology, which will control the speed and starting and stopping of subway trains.