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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Monday it will convene a panel of experts to look into its Bombardier R179 fleet — which has been plagued with a myriad of issues in recent months and will be shelved indefinitely. The MTA will convene a panel of safety, process, legal and car experts to examine recurring issues with the Bombardier-built R179 fleet….

The attack happened overnight when a man hurled a 15-pound slab of concrete at the windshield of a bus.

Phase one of reopening in New York City also means regular subway service and more people on the trains. Not so many during rush hour on the Q train but ridership is ticking back up after plunging from 5.4 million rides per weekday in February to under 450,000 in April. Andrew Siff reports from Union Square.

MTA buses and subways are returning to regular service — although with new rules to combat the spread of coronavirus.

New York City is set to end its months-long shutdown – that dropped MTA ridership by 90 percent – and the transportation agency is ready to return its army of subways back to regular service, mostly. MTA leadership released its 13-point plan Friday, outlining the steps the transit agency plans to implement as New York City enters Phase I of…

Protests happening all over New York City have created a new layer of uncertainty for some businesses as they look to reopen. Checkey Beckford reports.

The MTA unveiled their reopening plan, as New York City prepares for Phase I of reopening. Andrew Siff reports.

The MTA has now pulled its entire Bombardier R179 fleet out of service — just days before New York City is set to enter Phase 1 of its reopening — as it launches an investigation into an alleged incident in which a train became separated between the sixth and seventh cars of a ten-car train Wednesday morning. The incident took…

NYC is expected to enter Phase 1 on Monday, June 8 — which is when the MTA is planning on having subways and buses returning to full schedules once again

Gov. Cuomo gives updates on Coronavirus in New York.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has seen a slow uptick in ridership after it reported the number was down 90% last month. Sarah Feinberg, the interim president of the MTA, told CNBC Tuesday that the transit agency is generally seeing about 10,000 to 20,000 more riders each weekday. As all the regions in New York state, with the exception of New…

One popular NYC bakery has reopened, and established a slew of safety and cleanliness measures to ensure customers feel comfortable — one of which the MTA is also employing to clean subways and buses

The MTA just revealed a revolutionary way to clean subway cars and buses. These two little boxes could make your next ride cleaner. Gus Rosendale reports.

A man who dumped milk and a large tub of cereal on a subway car in a TikTok stunt was called out by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for putting unnecessary strain on essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

The largest public transportation agency in the nation is making another plea for billions in bailout funding as the coronavirus pandemic continue to leave long-lasting effects. The MTA is now forecasting $8.9 billion in lost revenue through the end of 2021, that’s in addition to the funding from the last month’s bailout from Congress. In the previously passed CARES Act,…

Last week, for the first time in New York’s history, the trains stopped running in a planned shutdown

There are many who refuse help and say they feel safer elsewhere during the COVID-19 pandemic, choosing to remain on the streets — or more accurately, they may just be switching modes of transportation

Because of the overnight subway closures for disinfecting, homeless people have moved from train cars to buses, Rana Novini reports.

The subways are up and running again after being shut down overnight for a deep cleaning in order to mitigate the COVID-19 contagion. During the shutdown, city workers helped more than 100 homeless people obtain shelter. Katherine Creag reports.