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Make Your Own Subway Advisory
The SUBWAYblogger found a potentially useful new tool for users of Facebook, a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. The Subway Status application, which was not developed by the MTA, is a user generated subway alert system. Now you can forget about those wet mornings when you don't know if your train will get you to work. Theoretically all of the other users on Facebook who ride your Subway line will have already tipped you off to any service disruptions before you leave your house. Pretty cool, although it is only useful if a large number of people use it, so sign up!
August 23, 2007
McCaffrey: The Subway is Crowded. Let’s Keep it That Way.
Walter McCaffrey's Committee to Keep New York City Congestion Tax Free has torn a page from StreetFilms' book and put out its very own propaganda video.
July 10, 2007
Roberts: MTA Needs Congestion Pricing
When NYC Transit President Howard Roberts announced Monday -- to some ridicule -- that certain subway lines are overcrowded with little to no relief in sight, it was reported that the system would not be able to handle the influx of commuters who are expected to switch to transit should congestion pricing be implemented.
June 27, 2007
Blogger Launches Petititon to Revive Dormant Subway Tracks
With the city promising to improve mass transit via congestion pricing revenue, Gary Reilly, author of neighborhood blog, First and Court has started a petition asking the MTA to restore express subway service on the F line and to extend the V line for local service to Brooklyn:
June 22, 2007
Assembly Considers Bankrupting MTA to Reduce Congestion
From WCBS-TV via Second Ave. Sagas:
June 14, 2007
Pricing is Alive. JFK Rail Link and SMART Fund May be Dead.
Annie Karni reports in today's New York Sun that the outlines of a congestion pricing bill may be hammered out in Albany before Memorial Day, though not exactly as Mayor Bloomberg initially proposed.
May 21, 2007