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Regulation Ends Freewheeling Era for Pedicabs

David W. Dunlap/The New York Times Three pedicab drivers received summonses last December from parks enforcement officers accusing them of driving on a pedestrian pathway in Central Park. The pedicabs will be comprehensively regulated for the first ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

The Days May Be Grim, but Here’s a Good Word to Put in Your Pocket

“The Waterfalls” flowed in the East River. “The Gates” snaked through Central Park. Now New York’s latest large-scale public art project is being exhibited in an even unlikelier space: your wallet. Reed Seifer, the graphic artist who devised the ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Transportation Authority,  New York Public Library

Countdown Clocks for 3 Bronx Subway Stations

In London, Paris and Washington, subway riders need only look up at a digital sign to know how many minutes it will be until the next train arrives. New York’s straphangers usually resort to peering into a darkened tunnel. But for some riders in the ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York City Transit Authority,  Metropolitan Transportation Authority

$25 Fee for New License Plates May Be Repealed

A plan to start charging New York drivers $25 for new license plates will be scuttled, lawmakers said on Sunday. The fee had caused an uproar among upstate officials, who called it an unfair burden on drivers. Leaders in both chambers of the ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David A Paterson

License Plates, at $25 a Car, Are a New Must for New Yorkers

ALBANY New York drivers will start paying for new license plates next year whether they want to or not. The new, highly reflective plates will be made at a men's prison upstate. Beginning in April, car and tractor-trailer owners alike will have to ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Matt Anderson,  David A Paterson

New York’s Cabbies Like Credit Cards? Go Figure

New York’s cabbies howled when the city began forcing them to take credit cards. Some even went on strike, calling the requirements a kowtow to tourists and a burden on drivers. Like a growing number of city taxi riders, Susan Barnett used a credit ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Taxi and Limousine Commission,  Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg Asks for Patience on M.T.A. Plan

Throughout the fall as he campaigned for re-election, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pledged to fight the waste, dirt and delays in the region’s mass transit system, promoting a new era of cooperation between City Hall and the Metropolitan Transportation ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Metropolitan Transportation Authority,  Jay H Walder,  New York City Transit Authority,  Long Island Rail Road

New York City Transit Gets New President

Thomas F. Prendergast/The New York Times Thomas F. Prendergast in 1999, when he was president of the Long Island Rail Road. The New York City bus and subway system got a new leader on Thursday, as transit officials hope to move ahead with new ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York City Transit Authority,  Long Island Rail Road,  New York Times Company,  Metropolitan Transportation Authority,  Jay H Walder

Think Your Bus Is Slow? Try Losing to a Tricycle

The M42 crosstown bus, a longitudinal loafer that creeps its way across a prime path of Midtown Manhattan, clocks in at 3.7 miles per hour, according to figures released on Thursday by the Straphangers Campaign, a riders’ advocacy group. That would be ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Straphangers Campaign,  Gene Russianoff,  Jay H Walder,  Michael Bloomberg

Bus and Subway President Quits in M.T.A. Shake-Up

His departure, after just two and a half years in the post, raised few eyebrows inside New York City Transit, where officials had been speculating about Mr. Roberts’s fate for weeks, according to several people familiar with the situation. Mr. Roberts ...

From MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Transport Workers Union,  New York City Transit Authority,  Jay H Walder

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