The MTA on Monday said that after years of starts and stops, drafts, final drafts, do-overs and approved plans, it finally has set a date for the implementation of its overhaul of Queens’ bus map.
Read MoreWhile funding for the ambitious Interborough Borough Express is still in limbo, the MTA is going full throttle on the proposed Brooklyn-Queens connector.
Read MoreThe MTA will soon hold a series of public town halls on their ambitious plan to build a light rail from Queens to Brooklyn, even as funding for the project remains in question.
Read MoreThe G train is getting some new life as two new open-gangway train cars were deployed on the city’s only Queens-Brooklyn connector on Tuesday.
Read MoreQueens bus riders will soon see the MTA’s long-awaited bus route redesign take effect, over half a decade after the transit agency first began redrawing the public transit network in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreSix years after the MTA began redrawing Queens’ bus map, riders will finally begin seeing new routes hitting the streets as soon as June.
Read MoreThe MTA gave Queens residents one last look at their new bus routes before the plan, which has been in the works for over half a decade, heads to its final stage.
Read MoreThousands of people got out of their cars and into subway trains and buses during the first week of congestion pricing, new data shows.
Read MoreFor the third time in five years, the MTA said Tuesday that it has a final draft for a new Queens bus map.
Read MoreSome members of the City Council are still hanging onto hope that the city will decide to resurrect an old train line that they believe would change South Queens locals’ lives for the better, rather than build a park along the elevated tracks.
Read MoreDuring a City Council hearing on Monday, city officials said the 7 train is the “overwhelming” epicenter for incidents of subway surfing, a dangerous practice which has resulted in six deaths citywide this year.
Read MoreOn Thursday night, Councilmember Selvena Brooks-Powers and the MTA held a town hall in Rockaway to discuss the MTA’s long-slated and much needed repairs on the peninsula portion of the A line and to hear out local concerns. At the town hall, the councilmember and several other locals told the MTA it isn’t going far enough to accommodate riders during the stoppage.
Read MoreMore than a decade after Hurricane Sandy flooded the Rockaway peninsula, repairs to the remote community are still causing headaches.
Read MoreThe Interborough Express moved one station closer to its destination this week.
Read MoreThe MTA proposed allocating over $2 billion to pay for the first steps needed to build the Interborough Express, a 14-mile light rail that would connect Queens to Brooklyn.
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