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Newsby StaffSeptember 18, 2012

N.Y. MTA updates website

The biggest change to the website is the expanded TripPlanner utility. Without even leaving the homepage, MTA customers now can get access to features that have proven popular but have not been accessible from the homepage.

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Newsby StaffAugust 15, 2012

Metro-North continues real-time rollout

Poughkeepsie, which serves nearly 2,000 customers each day, becomes the seventh station in the Metro-North system to have LCD monitors that provide detailed information, such as departure or arrival time, track assignment and status, for the next nine trains, including Amtrak trains.

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Newsby StaffAugust 9, 2012

Free Wi-Fi on N.Y. subways catching on

The new service is part of a $200 million plan to provide cellphone and data connectivity services to all 277 underground stations in New York by 2017.

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Newsby StaffJuly 31, 2012

N.Y. MTA to issue RFP for Fulton Center lease

The master lessee will be tasked with handling leasing and operations of the structure as well as the historic Corbin Building, the Dey Street entrance and the attached concourse under Dey Street.

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Newsby StaffJuly 20, 2012

N.Y. MTA, LIRR enhance services

Adding and extending service on almost 40 bus, subway and commuter rail lines. The investments will be phased in over several months and will cost an additional $29 million per year to operate when fully implemented. They are paid for with increased revenue generated by additional ridership and savings from the agency’s efforts to contain costs.

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Newsby StaffJuly 19, 2012

N.Y. MTA allowing ads on MetroCards

To make the program more attractive, the MTA is opening up space on the fronts of the iconic cards for the first time, and is reducing advertising rates.

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Newsby StaffJuly 18, 2012

N.Y.'s abandoned 'ghost station' brought to light

The forgotten City Hall station, which opened in 1904 along with 27 other Interborough Rapid Transit (I.R.T.) stations up to 145th Street on the west side, was the original terminal of New York's subway system.

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Newsby StaffJuly 12, 2012

Audit finds NYC bus shelter maintenance lacking

In 2006, the city inked a 20-year deal privatizing city bus shelters, sidewalk sheds, city benches and even sidewalk newsstands.

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Newsby StaffJune 4, 2012

Bombardier signs 300-car order for NYCT

The order is valued at approximately $599 million. Delivery of 10 pilot cars is scheduled to take place in the third quarter of 2014, followed by delivery of the remaining production series cars between mid-2015 and early 2017.

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Newsby StaffJune 4, 2012

N.Y. MTA bridges home to new falcon chicks

Urban falcons like to nest atop bridges, church steeples and high-rise buildings because they provide an excellent vantage point for hunting prey, including pigeons and small birds.

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