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  Answer:  YES. A & C train riders are in for shitty transit weekends this weekend, plus 4 more upcoming weekends.  It earned an entire pageon the MTA site.  Luckily, service will be normal for Easter Weekend. But, as for the other weekends, you’re not getting anywhere fast.  In Brooklyn, well hell, you’re already used [...]

  Answer:  YES. A & C train riders are in for shitty transit weekends this weekend, plus 4 more upcoming weekends.  It earned an entire pageon the MTA site.  Luckily, service will be normal for Easter Weekend. But, as for the other weekends, you’re not getting anywhere fast.  In Brooklyn, well hell, you’re already used [...]

The lines are all over the place this morning. Was that just a 5 train I saw running on the 7th Avenue line?? Yup. Sweet. And how ’bout this 1 train that seems to be spending 15 minutes at every stop. They keep saying that there is (was) some sort of emergency at 42nd Street [...]

Uuuhhhh I don’t know if I should be really freaked out right now or not. Here’s the setup… An older gentleman gets on the train. Looks normal enough. Wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. He has a fedora hat on and a big, white beard. Normal, right? Well, he walks into the center of [...]

Wesley Autrey, America’s hero who jumped on the subway tracks to save a stranger, is suing a lawyerfor fraudulently having Autrey sign away the rights of his story. …a lawyer and a man who represented himself as an entertainment executive tricked him into signing an “unconscionable” contract allowing them to exploit his name and personality. [...]

It would figure that during the most interesting subway day in forever, SUBWAYblogger was tied up in other business. What did we miss? The 4, 5, 6 around East Harlem was a “no go” for much of the midday due to a building collapse. The two had little to do with eachother other that officials [...]

  Digital video cameras coming to a subway car near you.  Or maybe not.  Or yes.  But perhaps no.  Huh? We still don’t think the MTA knows what they want to do yet, but they are starting to dip their toes in the water with this idea. The MTA has asked some subway car manufacturers [...]