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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.