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The MTA approved the doomsday budget yesterday that will allow them to hike the fares starting as early as Thursday this week.  The new budget would/will need to be approved tomorrow (Wednesday), and the new fare would kick in Thursday. How much? Single rides would be $2.50.  The monthly unlimited Metrocard would jump to $104 [...]

Turns out it’s not just the homeless guys that pick up the tossed Metrocards to try and to use the leftover values. The Post reports that Georgette DiFini, an F line resident of Brooklyn, regularly picks up discarded Metrocards.  She claims that roughly 40% of all tossed cards have at least some money left on [...]

Was anyone delayed by the wall collapse on Lexington in the 30′s today? Apparently, there was a 10 foot wall that collapsed at a construction site.  Emergency officials evacuated a neighboring building as a precaution because they feared that the ground movement might make the foundation of that building unstable.  It wasn’t really that bad [...]

So here’s an idea that came to my mind.  I’m sure I am not the first one to think of this, so I’m by no means trying to take credit.  I’m just trying to initiate the discussion. What if Metrocards were priced based on residency? People living in the 5 boros would receive a significant [...]

MTA’s officials gave the press tours of the new South Ferry station that is expected to open next month. Many reporters made comments about how clean it was, as it it were a hospital wing.  The fancy new station cost about $500 million to build directly under the current South Ferry station. What does this [...]

So like I said, the rain is bad news. My ride home was all f-ed up.  I got onto the platform only to see 10,000 other people already waiting for the train delayed due to rain. By pure miracle, I made it onto the first train that finally came 15 minutes later.  People were getting [...]

For that price, it had better come with at least two drinks. The latest news is the very real possibility of subway fares going over $100 for monthly cards.  I call bullsh*t there not because of the price necessarily, but what we get. I love the lead from the Daily News: Brace yourself for the [...]

I guess only time will tell.  When there’s back to back days of solid rain, it can cause some big issues on the subway.  For whatever reason, the subway and water just don’t mix. It is kind of ironic that an massive system of underground tunnels build on an island at the mouth of a [...]