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Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line departure board at Grand Central Terminal (credit: CBS 2)

Metro-North’s New Haven Line Back On Schedule After Repairs

Regular train service has returned to Connecticut, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks.

2013/05/22

MTA AppQuest

App Developers Hunker Down In Brooklyn To Make Transit Service Better

Hundreds of app developers and other tech whizzes gathered in Brooklyn this weekend for a contest to create apps for transit riders.

2013/05/04

Crews work to replace nearly 3/4 mile of damaged LIRR track on March 21, 2013.(credit: CBS 2)

LIRR Repairs To Damaged Track ‘Enormous Effort’

The LIRR said crews have already replaced 1,600 concrete ties that were damaged when the train derailed Monday at Rego Park, destroying nearly a mile of track.

2013/03/22

Heavy machinery and crews are working to replace nearly 3/4 mile of LIRR track following Monday's derailment. March 21, 2013 (credit: Jim Smith/WCBS 880)

LIRR Derailment Repairs Expected To Be Complete By Monday Morning Commute

Specialized machinery has been working to dig up the nearly 1,600 damaged concrete railroad ties to replace them with fresh ones.

2013/03/21

(credit: CBS 2)

LIRR, Metro-North, NJ TRANSIT Getting Service Back Up After Blizzard

Crews have been clearing snow and getting mass transit back up and running across the Tri-State area after some rail and bus service was halted by the blizzard.

2013/02/09

New York City Subway (credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

MTA Subway, Bus Fare Hike Hearing To Go On Despite Nor’easter

As we’ve seen over the past week plus, weather can’t bring New York City to a grinding halt. So, despite the foul weather of a nor’easter, the MTA’s Aaron Donovan says the agency will hold its first fare hike hearing tonight at 5 p.m.

2012/11/07

(credit: Jesse Zanger/CBSNewYork.com)

MTA Consolidates 117 Agency Phone Numbers Into One

Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the MTA, declared the new number “simply makes it easier to get to where you need to go.”

2011/10/04

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