The only blog written from the NYC Subway system

That’s what the MTA is saying these days when they look at the capital improvement budget.  There’s a gaping $3 billion hole smack in the middle of the budget responsible for general repairs and maintenance of the transit system. Yep.  $3 Billion.  Oops. “The [CAPITAL] program has some shortfalls in it,” Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO [...]

This was honestly what you had to deal with this weekend to get around the city. The MTA basically decided to turn the subway into a giant NASCAR track.  So you had to just get on and cross your fingers that you boarded the correct train in the loop. The 2 train went down the [...]

Ok, this is the first of a two part series focused on how much MTA Employees are paid versus other city service workers. First a quick poll. We will have the full wrap up later on this story. You will be shocked…at least I was. So check back soon, we’ll have all the details. In [...]

Well, if you have eyes, you can see that the weather is complete crap today. There’s going to be tons of flooding, especially in the subway tunnels. So, let us know in the comments section of this post if you experience any service delays while out and about today. We will post them all here. [...]

  A new feature on SUBWAYblogger:  Subscribe to comments. For a while, we’ve had a little checkbox on our comments where you could allegedly subscribe to get an email alert when there are new comments.  However, let’s be honest, it hasn’t really worked that well in the past.  Ok, it sucked. But not anymore!!  We’ve [...]

  A new feature on SUBWAYblogger:  Subscribe to comments. For a while, we’ve had a little checkbox on our comments where you could allegedly subscribe to get an email alert when there are new comments.  However, let’s be honest, it hasn’t really worked that well in the past.  Ok, it sucked. But not anymore!!  We’ve [...]

Dear SUBWAYblogger readers, We’ve recently made some changes on the backend that will hopefully improve the performance of this site. Over the past couple weeks, there has been a noticeable increase in page load time. Basically, it was taking a lot longer than it should for the main page to load. Mainly, this is due [...]

So if you’ve checked out GypsyMaps, you might have found yourself asking, “Did onNYTurf go girly?”  Nope, it isn’t the same site.  Gypsymapsis a pretty blatant copy of the onNYTurfsubway map/Google Map mashup.  Unfortunately, I think Gypsy may end up on top in this one, and that’s just because it is more corporate looking.  The [...]