RailComm brings the heat to AirTrain JFK
Fairport, N.Y.-based RailComm said Friday, Feb. 18, 2015 the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s AirTrain JFK now has more third rail heaters in place remotely controlled using RailComm technology.
MTA New York City Transit
Made (mostly under) Manhattan
Amid myriad ongoing rail project work in New York’s five boroughs, four subway programs in Manhattan signify the ups and downs of adjusting and growing a century-old system for the second 100 years.
New York MTA Board approves fare hike
Riders on New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) buses and subways will pay more beginning March 22, 2015, following an MTA Board of Directors decision on Thursday, Jan. 22, to increase fares.
Hill International to manage NYCT storm recovery program
MTA New York City Transit has awarded Marlton, N.J.-based Hill International a five-year indefinite-quantity contract worth an estimated $55.8 million for construction management and inspection services for NYCT’s Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts and other miscellaneous construction projects.
MTA eyes more Canarsie Line capacity
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) seeks federal funds to add infrastructure and increase capacity on its Canarsie “L” line linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, currently handling huge increases in passenger traffic.
Arcadis lands NYCT post-Sandy work
Arcadis US has been awarded a $26 million “task order” contract by MTA New York City Transit to, essentially, weatherproof huge swaths of the city’s subway system inundated by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.
MTA Fulton Street Transit Center opens
As expected, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 officially opened its Fulton Street Transit Center, linking nine (eventually to be 11) subway lines and related facilities in lower Manhattan.
MTA: Fulton St. Center to open Nov. 10
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 that its new Fulton Street Transit Center, serving 11 subway lines and related facilities in lower Manhattan, will open to the public on Nov. 10 at 5:00 a.m.
New York subways mark days of 6 million riders
As New York City’s subway ridership has improved, journalistic shorthand has routinely noted the system, easily the largest rapid transit system in the U.S., carries 5 million riders per weekday. MTA New York City Transit now is suggesting that assumed number may soon need revision.
NYCT Montague Subway Tunnel reopens
At least two weeks ahead of schedule, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) resumed normal subway service on New York City Transit’s R Line on Monday morning, Sept. 15, 2014, reopening a Manhattan-Brooklyn route using the Montague Tunnel.