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FILE - Passengers crowd onto a bus on First Avenue. (credit: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

MTA Announces Expansion Of Real-Time Bus Tracking Service

The days of standing at a bus stop wondering when the next bus is going to show up may be coming to an end.

2013/03/14

MTA Bus (file/Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Driver Slams Into Back Of Bus In Brooklyn, Dies

A 23-year-old Brooklyn man is dead, after his car slammed into the back of an MTA bus in Cypress Hills.

2013/03/11

Flooding damage caused by Sandy at the South Ferry station (credit: MTA New York City Transit / David Henly)

Old South Ferry Subway Station To Reopen

Starting next month, the end of the the line for the 1 train will again be South Ferry.

2013/03/08

Queens Midtown Tunnel Flooding (credit: MTA)

MTA To Get $200 Million In Federal Sandy Aid

More than half of the funding – $141.6 million – will go towards the MTA’s New York City Transit operations that were badly damaged in the Oct. 29 storm.

2013/03/07

Robert Ferrari's newsstand at the North White Plains Metro-North Railroad station - March 6, 2013 (credit: Paul Murnane / WCBS 880)

Bidding On Spaces Could Mean Big Changes For Metro-North Station Businesses

Robert Ferrari at the North White Plains station is thinking about a bid on the space where he’s supplied commuters with newspapers and coffee for 23 years.

2013/03/06

Rat spotted in the Jamaica Center subway terminal on Sept. 21, 2011 (

MTA To Use Birth Control To Target Subway Rats

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has come up with a new way to target rats.

2013/03/02

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is seen from Chopper 880 (credit: Evan Bindelglass / CBSNewYork)

Latest Round Of Toll Hikes Takes Effect Sunday Morning

More toll hikes will take effect this weekend at bridges and tunnels in the New York Metro area.

2013/03/02

MetroCard (credit: Evan Bindelglass / CBSNewYork)

Costly Commutes: Fare Hikes & Toll Spikes Coming To A Location Near You

Commuters just can’t catch a break. Fares and tolls will be going on up virtually everyone commuting or driving into and around New York City.

2013/02/26

NYC subway

No A Train Service North Of 168th Street During Overnight Hours This Week

A Train commuters in the Washington Heights and Inwood sections of Manhattan will need to find alternate means of transportation during the overnight hours this week.

2013/02/24

Damage caused by Sandy at the South Ferry station (credit: MTA New York City Transit / David Henly)

MTA Hoping To Restore At Least Some Service To South Ferry Station

Acting Metropolitan Transportation Authority executive director Thomas Prendergast said Tuesday that the agency looking into ways to get at least some service back running at the South Ferry subway station.

2013/02/12

New MTA Online Subway Map

MTA Revamps Online Subway Map With Interactive Features

When you click through to the subway system map on the MTA website, you can now do more than just stare at it. It has been made interactive.

2013/02/06

People on a subway platform waiting for the D train - Nov. 4, 2012 (credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

MTA Considers Closing Subway Stations If They Get Too Crowded

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority thinks there could come a day where New York, like London, has to shut down big subway stations like Grand Central because they’re just too packed with people.

2013/02/04

Grand Central Terminal (file / credit: Evan Bindelglass / CBSNewYork)

One Day Until Grand Central Terminal’s 100th Birthday

The celebration will include remarks from Caroline Kennedy, whose mother Jacqueline is credited with saving Grand Central from the wrecking ball. A centennial fanfare will also be performed by the West Point Brass Ensemble.

2013/01/31

Local track at 14th Street A/C/E subway station in Manhattan (file / credit: Evan Bindelglass / CBSNewYork)

MTA Chief Pushes Back Against TWU On Subway Slowdown

An executive with the transit union went up against the acting chairman of the MTA today on the subject of subway safety and train speed.

2013/01/30

Mayoral Candidate Joseph Lhota (file / credit: Andy Kropa/Getty Images)

Mayoral Candidate Joseph Lhota In Radio Interview: NYC In ‘Fragile’ State

“All of the great that happened, the foundation that Mayor Giuliani built during his term and that Mike Bloomberg has built on top of that, they’re quite fragile,” he told WCBS 880 morning anchors Michael Wallace and Pat Carroll.

2013/01/30

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