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On September 16, 2011, the MTA introduced a Vignelli-style interactive subway map, "The Weekender", [112] to its website. [113] The web app provided a way for riders to get information about any planned work, from late Friday night to early Monday morning, that is going on either on a service(s) or station(s) of the subway during the weekends.
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [78] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.
The cutbacks meant that wait times during rush hours increased from 8 to 12 minutes. In March 2021, TWU 100, the union for subway workers, sued the MTA in order to prevent the reduced frequencies from being permanent. [39] That same month, the MTA decided to bring back full C service; full service was restored in mid-2021. [40] [41]
New York's public transit system will stop work on a planned subway line expansion and retreat from other maintenance and improvement projects because of a $16.5 billion shortfall caused by Gov ...
“The MTA will resume their 24-hour service on May 17 to coordinate with the economic and social activity increase,” said Cuomo. MTA to restore NYC’s 24-hour subway service on May 17 Skip to ...
The MTA Board allocated $5 million for a feasibility study, the Utica Avenue Subway Extension Study, for this proposal in the MTA's 2015–2019 Capital Program. [147] In August 2016, it was reported that the MTA was looking into an extension of the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line along Flatbush Avenue to Marine Park , which would allow trains to serve ...
The “Goodfellas” actress, who once voiced PSAs for the MTA, loves her hometown transit so much that she once vied to compete in the “Miss Subways” pageant and wears an old subway token ...
In July 2015, the MTA announced it was considering restoring the W with its 2004–2010 service pattern following the opening of the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway, which would reroute the Q from the Astoria Line to 96th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The W would replace the Q on the Astoria Line to maintain two services on the ...