New York City - Transit News

[mrnyc]

sure, what could go wrong?



Self-driving shuttles testing this summer at JFK Airport parking lot

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on July 10, 2024


more:
https://www.amny.com/transit/self-dr...g-jfk-airport/


Self-driving vehicles will begin testing with human passengers at JFK Airport’s long-term parking lot this summer.
Port Authority of NY/NJ

[Busy Bee]

How long before teenage idiots are surfing on top of them?

[mrnyc]

laying el station track in cypress hills —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8IDJ...duZGs0M3d6aw==

[mrnyc]

at least somebody is pushing back on the gov's fiasco --




EXCLUSIVE | City Comptroller Lander assembles legal team to challenge Hochul’s congestion pricing pause

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on July 17, 2024


City Comptroller Brad Lander has assembled a legal team that is expected to announce litigation aimed at activating congestion pricing, the city’s fiscal watchdog exclusively told amNewYork Metro Wednesday.


more:
https://www.amny.com/transit/comptro...stion-pricing/

[mrnyc]

9av elevated line —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9m1m...E5NnI1cXEyc2Nv

[mrnyc]

he’s a living legend —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Fee...RtMW50YWp1cA==

[Busy Bee]

Not really a fan of the subway announcement voices. Maybe that's just me.

[dchan]

I've heard his voice for many years when my mom had Bloomberg Radio playing constantly in the background.

[mrnyc]

cleaning the trains —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9P4b...RxY3phNnFrdTFt

[mrnyc]

lincoln tunnel ‘catwalk’ —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C89TJ...dvN2R0eXZ4dA==

[Gantz]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

surprize! $$$ troubles for the expensive ferries —

Setting ‘$ale’: NYC Ferry looking to sell corporate naming rights to avoid sinking money troubles

By Ben Brachfeld
Posted on June 25, 2024


The Adams administration is looking for a corporate sponsor to buy naming rights for NYC Ferry, the aquatic transit service that has long been in the red financially.

They just need to increase the congestion pricing charge. It will surely work out.

[TowerDude]

In the depths of the Jackson Heights subway station, a cultural center emerges

https://gothamist.com/news/in-the-de...center-emerges

The MTA initiative, known poetically as the Vacant Unit Activation Program, was announced last October as an effort to “make currently unused spaces more vibrant,” per an agency press release.

The agency has dozens of retail spaces it’s trying to fill, through traditional and less-traditional means. According to the MTA, there are 194 retail spaces scattered throughout the subway system. Of these, 53 are in operation, 19 are under construction and 64 are under negotiation. That leaves 58 spaces which an agency official said will be “marketed” over the next 15 months.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by Gantz

They just need to increase the congestion pricing charge. It will surely work out.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if that's how things worked? Of course in reality you can't just base the price on how much money you want to raise. You need to set it at the equilibrium point, the same as setting the price for retail product in a store. As with a store, if you lower the price below equilibrium then more people will be willing to buy the product to the point where there won't be enough of the product to sell. So even though you will be able to sell more if you could, since there's a limit to supply you end up making less money.

But if you raise the price beyond the equilibrium point, even though each person is paying more, fewer people are paying because people have a choice whether or not they purchase the product. And the higher the price gets, the greater the percentage of people who consider it too expensive and choose not to pay. So if you decided to raise the price until the roads are well below 100% capacity at peak, you'd lose so much money from having fewer people paying that the higher price per vehicle couldn't make up for it. So the money you get from CP is great but you get the amount that you get. You can't control it very much.

[mrnyc]

100% with her —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8ttz...JkOHVrNndkcXdm

[Busy Bee]

I still can't believe idiot kids are still doing this after what 4 or 5 decapitations in the last few years alone? Does news not get around?

[mrnyc]

nice while it lasted —




MTA free bus pilot ending on Sept. 1, deemed a dud despite increased ridership

By Ben BrachfeldPosted on July 29, 2024


The MTA’s yearlong free bus service pilot is set to unceremoniously end on Sept. 1, with the agency deeming the experiment a dud even though it generated increased ridership.

Started last September, the MTA eliminated fares on five bus lines, one in each borough, as part of an experiment mandated by state lawmakers as part of the authority’s financial rescue package in 2023. The five lines chosen were the Bx18 in the Bronx, the B60 in Brooklyn, the M116 in Manhattan, the Q4 in Queens, and the S46/96 in Staten Island.

Months after state legislators declined to extend the pilot in this year’s budget, and agency brass cast aspersions on it, the MTA has put out its initial findings.


more:
https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-fre...ing-ridership/

[mrnyc]

yep pretty much daily sights —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9zw1...ZvajFpOGE0bWQ0

[mrnyc]

behold the nyc subway themed cafe in south korea —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/C91wP...V3eHBwNWVqNzlr

[mrnyc]

huuuuuge underestimate here for sure —
if they looked at staten only it would be 100% —
but anyway, nice of mta to finally take any notice i guess —




MTA says nearly half of bus riders skip the fare, plans NYPD crackdown

By Ramsey Khalifeh
Published Jul 31, 2024


More than 2 million people ride the MTA’s buses every weekday — but nearly half of them don’t bother to pay, transit officials said on Wednesday.

Roughly 47% of bus riders evaded the fareduring the first three months of 2024, according to MTA estimates. The agency’s leaders warned free rides on buses cost the MTA $300 million last year, and say the growing problem is worsening the MTA’s bleak financial picture.

The MTA plans to respond aggressively by deploying more NYPD officers and additional MTA fare enforcement agents onto buses, spokesperson John McCarthy said. He also said the MTA needs “to come up with a new enforcement mechanism to deal with” the problem.


more:
https://gothamist.com/news/mta-says-...nypd-crackdown

[mrnyc]

about that rythmic sound on the tracks —

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9m3u...VpMXNudGJxZg==