NEW YORK – The MTA reached a major milestone this week by reaching a new peak in daily ridership since the New York City pandemic shutdown in March 2020. New Yorkers took more than 2,009,025 subway trips Thursday, the transit agency announced. Data shows that the number of subway passengers dropped by 90 percent in … Read more
What you should know New York City train users could be exposed to poor air quality according to a study by New York University’s Groddman School of Medicine. The report says that the air some passengers breathe could be compared to particles from forest fires or from building demolition. The researchers measured air quality samples … Read more
NEW YORK – Without another stimulus effort from Washington, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is poised to decide on extreme service cuts and layoffs after sounding the alarm for months of a billion-dollar deficit caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Major budget-saving measures could be decided next month and passed in December, MTA President Pat Foye … Read more