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If you were unfortunate enough to ride NJ Transit this morning…well your day started off pretty crappy.  Especially if you were on the train that derailed.
Luckily, we can joke about it because no one was hurt.  However, the photos of the wreckseem pretty significant.  It’s not like one wheel jumped the rail or something.  A [...]

Every time I find myself in the Columbus Circle area, it seems that the station is taken over by more construction. Everytime I’m there, it’s like a completely different stop because of all the temporary walls that go up.
The first thing the crews seem to do is establish a home base somewhere at the [...]

The MTA is testing some new verbiage on the subway aimed at getting rid of the term “last stop.”
Normally, when you come to the end of the line, the announcer says that “this is the last stop.”  Believe it or not, those words are dangerous.  No, we aren’t kidding.  Apparently, people flip out if the [...]

Nothing starts the week off right like starting it on Tuesday! Unless of course you live in Brooklyn and rely on the 7 train.
For those that fit that description, it might well have been a rather uneventful weekend.
SUBWAYblogger lives in Manhattan, so the 7 train closure wasn’t that big a deal. However, [...]

For the next 4 weekends, there isn’t going to be any 7 train service.  Work is being done to upgrade signal lights and what not.
Consequently, you might not see your 7 train friends at the bars for the next few weeks.  Yep, it’s going to be a pretty boring weekend.  Most likely, they’ll suck it [...]

(ok, so this isn’t one of the platform signs, but it is still really funny.)
So the New York Times went underground to do some of the hard-hitting investigative reporting that they are known for.  They sent a reporter, armed with a stop watch, into the subway system to ride the L trains and test the [...]

Am I the only one that’s a little creeped out by the NYC Condom ads?  You have to give them credit, because they are pretty bold and edgy for a government organization.  But they are still strange. 
They give off that perverted Uncle Bob vibe.  Like some old guy is trying to push condoms on you.  [...]

From the AP/MTA: 
A city councilman doesn’t like the shut-down of the Number Seven subway that will affect parts of Queens and Manhattan for the next five weekends. The Seven train will be out of service this holiday weekend between the 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue stop in Queens and the Times Square stop in Manhattan. The shut-down will [...]