February 25th, 2010
By the end of April — earlier than previously thought — 450 station agents who help riders and keep watch in the system will lose their jobs because of a $750 million budget gap, agency officials said Wednesday.
February 25th, 2010
For the struggling Metropolitan Transportation Authority, it remains the absolute last resort: raising fares and tolls more than planned to help offset a budget shortfall of nearly $800 million.
February 25th, 2010
Desperate for cash, the MTA plans to eliminate some 600 union and non-union administrative workers and lay off over 500 station agents, those red-vested transit employees who sell MetroCards and monitor life underground.
February 25th, 2010
As it contends with more than 1,000 employee layoffs, the MTA will kick off a series of public meetings next week to discuss planned cuts to bus and subway service and ending free student MetroCards.
February 24th, 2010
The S60 — one of 16 bus routes put onthe chopping block by the cash-strapped MTA — runs up steep Grymes Hill, where the sidewalk (in the parts where there is one) is covered in snow and ice. When it’s gone, senior citizens and students (Wagner College and St. John’s University are on top of the hill) face a 25-minute trek up to their homes and dorms.
February 24th, 2010
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is looking to lay off hundreds of New York City subway station agents, revising an earlier plan under which they would have been allowed to retire, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.
February 24th, 2010
The MTA plans to hand pink slips to more than 1,000 employees as it struggles to rein in ballooning deficits, the Daily News has learned.
February 24th, 2010
About 600 managers from all of the agency’s divisions — including New York City Transit — will receive pink slips in the next several days, sources said. Those workers are not unionized. And NYCT officials also plan to ditch hundreds of station agents, with another 450 being eliminated.
February 22nd, 2010
Four cars of an E train equipped with state-of-the-art security cameras made its unprecedented first run this morning, part of an aggressive anti-terror and crime initiative that the MTA could expand to every line in the subway system.
February 16th, 2010
Transit officials are quietly trying out a new system to notify subway passengers when the next train is arriving - and it may be cheap enough to spread citywide.
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