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Yeah, so it’s rainy as hell, but at least it’s a little cooler out today. That’s a refreshing change.
Unfortunately, it is still humid as hell on the subway. I had the unlucky fortune of getting on car without air conditioning. It was just as crowded as always, so that kinda kept me [...]

State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno says that congestion pricing will pass the state legislature as part of a deal worked out with Bloomberg.
From 1010 WINS:
A spokesman for Gov. Eliot Spitzer confirmed the deal, which is being written into draft legislation and a letter of agreement, Bruno said. The agreement on Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal [...]

 
iPhone users can get a nifty little app for their device that shows a full New York City subway map.  It’s a spawn of the infamous iPodmaps.
iSubwayMaps.com now offers up the service.  It’s free.  SUBWAYblogger doesn’t have a iPhone, but we’d sure like one!  Have you tried it?  Let us know how it is.
Side note…with [...]

Subway service on the 4, 5, and 6, and 7 in Manhattan has been restored.  However, all subway trains are still bypassing Grand Central Terminal.  The S train service is still not running.

All I gotta say is two things.  1) I told you so and 2) good luck getting to work on the East Side tomorrow.
Ok, so earlier today, I ranted on and on about how shockingly perfect my morning commute was despite the horrible weather.  At the end, I mentioned that I hoped it would continue [...]

Holy hell.  Here’s the latest from the MTA as of 4:31pm
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More details at MTA.info

As many loyal readers know, the transit gods often poop on my morning commute.  Yes, that’s right…I said poop.
Today, however, they spared me from a complete nightmare.  As we all are completely aware, it’s raining like hell today.  When I woke up and looked out the window, it was coming down in buckets.
I did the [...]

A sad day.  Mayor Bloomberg’s Congestion Pricing Bill has been killed.  It was a bloody day in Albany.
There his plan fell to a confluence of local politics and a showdown between a mayor who knew he was right and a Legislature in no mood these days to be pushed around by an aggressive executive.
That about [...]