I swear they've added at least another 3 left turn signals on Sunrise Highway in the Town of Babylon Turning into Jericho Turnpike... Every little side after street needs its own signal until there are 2,400 traffic lights from the city line to Orient Point. Then everyone wants a left turn signal.

The majority of @mtalirr.bsky.social's crowding issues these days are, at their core, a fleet [mis]management issue. More than 80% of electric trains that have exceed the loading guidelines since the start of East Side Access were ran with less than 12 cars!

Heard thru grapevine that MetroCard VM's at AirTrain JFK stations will be removed December 28-29 Pre-valued AirTrain 10-trip & AirTrain 30 Day Unlimited MetroCards will still be sold at a few newsstands at Jamaica a parking lot at airport(?) Expected to be on OMNY in "late Feb" @airlineflyer.net

Very disagree with this. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask people to carry a farecard for the city they live in But it should be 1 card—not 4. And it should work on all modes. Not just some No foreign peer city has moved off farecards/tickets for frequent riders! None have contactless parity.

I get the frustration, and there should be some modesty to these fees, but there is an expense the rental company bears to pay the toll, identify the driver, collect their payment, etc. (and a portion of people may not pay). Would the same opinion apply for speed camera tix?

I think this ornament is missing something very important??

LIRR's "record" on time performance statistics are complete nonsense. With only about two-thirds of trains arriving into Jamaica <3 minutes late, passengers arrive to their destinations late far more often than they should.

These new turnstiles are a joke already... www.reddit.com/r/NYStateOfM...

Habemus veto

The one on the right doesn't seem to be calibrated properly, it interrupted the stride of 4 people. These are going to be a mess if the MTA does not stay on top of maintaining these.

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ I know why...

LIRR reshuffled and buried the ends of the holiday M-9 set in the middle of the train. Goofballs...

Would be sweet if @mtalirr.bsky.social redistributed service on Fridays so people don't have to stand at 1am in the morning!

Someone should really do an analysis of the Subway GTFS-RT feed to see if NYCT is actually running the increased levels of service the MTA claims they are. What happened to 6 minute weekend headways on the 1?? Is it really a service improvement if the line is impacted by GO's 46 weekends a year?

Would be sweet if @mtalirr.bsky.social redistributed service on Fridays so people don't have to stand at 1am in the morning!

It is frustrating that the MTA is viewing the cash infusion from the state as a birthright that validates the status quo and not as a close call and that it should avoid needing in the future by shaking things up to improve its farebox recovery ratio

Friday travel still much lighter on LIRR www.thelirrtoday.com/2025/12/frid...

I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the F/M swap that could all be addressed by adding a couple more trains per hour like was promised. Deinyerlining won't work with LESS service.

Oslo had problems with their faregates so they got rid of them. American cities had problems with faregates, so bought new sturdier more imposing ones. Some systems (many German ones) started out as trams so simple stations were always preferred (meaning no room for gates or ticketing mezzanines).

US commuter rail doesn't have gates and checking tickets is slow and costly. They should want everyone on a monthly but they don't make the effort to do so.

I really don't know what's driving this trend. I think ultimately transit agencies view their riders as captive and thus not sensitive to fares. America's mass transit agencies are categorically disinterested in competing for mode share.

NJTransit is bringing back its discounted 20-trip ticket option in February: www.njtransit.com/flexpass Good that they recognize hybrid commuting is here to stay, and interesting juxtaposition against @mta.info eliminating 10-trip discounts come January...

IRS increases pre-tax limits for transit and parking for 2026 www.thelirrtoday.com/2025/12/pre-...

I don't get the continued hullabaloo about this. NYers are going to and were always going to pay for this one way or another. Just a question of whether it is coming out of the left pocket or the right pocket. So far the scope and cost doesn't seem to have strayed that far from what MTA proposed.

Let’s be courteous and ride responsibly! Operate trains on time and hold connecting trains when late, so customers can have an opportunity to make it to their destination.

And _real_ record high ridership, not BS "post-pandemic records" we hear about from the nation's other mass transit agencies when everyone else moved on with life some years ago.

NICE Bus confirms OMNY will be available by January 4 www.thelirrtoday.com/2025/12/nice...

And also, I was just at Times Square where they were doing another "shift change" at 3pm (with six people waiting) that was estimated to take 20-30 minutes. They are so so not ready for a couple hundred thousand people digging up expired cards at the end of the month

LMAO no. He means specifically, at the stations listed, there may be multiple booths but only one "CSC" can do Metrocard balance transfers, with only one reader at a time, with an average of 1-2m per transaction and a lot longer if the irate customer doesn't like hearing their card demagnetized

NYLCV's suggestion to create a integrated multimodal fare between NYCT, NYC Ferry, and Citi Bike is a great one...but MTA's OMNY screw-ups will make that impossible, or at least very impractical for the first year.

Fare evasion is not a hardware problem, it's an enforcement problem (and also a fare pricing problem) Germany has low fare evasion rates with no physical fare control barriers Have true systemwide PoP enforcement. If people want to hop turnstiles and pay $100 fine, I don't care!

Is this why they are trying to rebrand it as the "Midtown Bus Terminal"?

People may not verbalize it, but fares and fare policy have pretty big impacts on ridership. And it is a far easier dial for transit agencies to turn than actually improving the service...

I'm glad they have that option for those people. But putting the future of new york city transit behind a technology that can't let you buy fares in time based increments like the rest of the civilized world is comically incompetent, even for the MTA. Insane that we're pushing this through anyway

Better weekend PATH service will be a huge, long overdue improvement—but even with these changes fully implemented PATH will be running LESS service than they were in 2019. Weekday peak service will still be down slightly, and weekday off-peak service has been cut by 20% since 2019.

Combo Ticket sales www.thelirrtoday.com/2025/11/comb...

@alonlevy.bsky.social Did you have a post in the past showing general flows of cross-CBD commutes across NY (e.g. Queens to the Bronx, LI to NJ, etc.) or was that in the ETA report? Can't seem to find it.

NJTransit's naming rights deal with BetMGM for the Meadowlands rail spur has come to an end, so now the line shows up as white text on a white background on NJT's app 🤦‍♂️

Maybe one day MTA will find a better balance between running skimpy Metro-North service where every train is jam packed and regular weekday LIRR service where trains are barely a third full... But it's late mobile ticket activations that are bankrupting the MTA!!

Metro-North publishes a list of trains that will sport its decorated 'holdiay trains'. The best LIRR can come up with is a "random rotation" of trains. Pretty good euphemism for how the railroad is run 😉 bsky.app/profile/mtal...

LIRR and Metro-North are sunsetting email-based mobile ticking accounts, requiring riders create new accounts tied to their Apple/Google accounts or phone numbers. Presumably this is to make it more difficult for riders to create new accounts after the railroads block them for late activations...

Very nice to see police in an accessible location (instead of a walled off district office behind barriers and storefront) But we should also be having a conversation about why MTA has not filled so many vacant retail spaces across the system...rents too high or is MTA a bad landlord?

Wild that in the next few years GO will likely overtake the 24/7, higher frequency, and much larger LIRR in daily ridership. Can only imagine how much higher it will be as service continues to grow to rapid transit levels. Fare and service integration and a *nice* system clearly help.

The NJT 62 bus hasn't been nearly as reliable/good since they opened Terminal A and it blew the headways and travel times out of whack with this convoluted route around the airport...

Yawn. Waste of money when they should just bite the bullet and grade separate this ramp (and segregate exiting and through traffic onto different roadways) so motorists going from the northbound RM Causeway to the Sagtikos don't have to merge across 3 lanes of traffic www.newsday.com/long-island/...

Transit operators can’t control the traffic and the schedule, but they can control if they leave the terminal on time.

I love walking through an iron maiden every time I pay (sometimes twice, thanks OMNY) to use the delayed and dirty service

For every minute/dollar transit agencies spend on fare evasion, they should be required to spend two minutes/$2 on how they are actually improving service so people might actually _want_ to pay for it...

The data consistency in US DOT's National Transit Database is pretty garbage...

PATH's proposed 'significant' service increase is actually just a restoration and reshuffling of the service levels they were operating pre-pandemic. Even playing out all of the proposed service boosts through 2027, PATH will still be operating 2.6% less service hours than they were in 2019.