OMNY SURPASSES 5 MILLION TAPS AHEAD OF EXPANSION TO 60 MORE STATIONS
BY THE END OF JANUARY: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
announced today that its new OMNY contactless fare payment system will
be installed at 60 more subway stations during the month of January,
including major station complexes such as Herald Square and 47-50
Sts-Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and Jay St-MetroTech in Brooklyn.
The MTA also celebrated the OMNY system’s system’s 5 millionth tap,
which took place last Friday, mere months after OMNY launched at a
handful of stations. To mark the expansion of OMNY, the MTA also
announced today a new public information campaign including station
announcements by NYC Transit President Andy Byford and MTA
advertisements coming to more than 1,100 subway cars. The ads, some of
which can be seen here, feature slogans such as “Save the swiping
for your dating app” and graphics showing the evolution of fare
payment in New York City. Click here for the audio of Byford greeting
customers at OMNY-enabled stations. Adoption rates continue to exceed
the MTA’s most ambitious internal estimates, and work to bring OMNY
to the entire subway and bus system by the end of the year remains on
pace. “The rate at which New Yorkers and visitors are using OMNY has
surpassed our most ambitious estimates, and that’s a testament to
the system’s popularity" said MTA NYC Transit President Andy
Byford. “Five million taps this quickly is outstanding, and that
pace will grow even faster as we add more stations. By the end of this
year, this quick, easy and seamless way to pay will be available at
every subway station and every MTA bus to help everyone move
faster.” (MTA - posted 1/07)
R-42 Subway Cars Make Their Final Trip, Ending 51 Years of Service
Photos of the Final Run are Available at This Link
<https://flic.kr/s/aHsmLmzxNt
February 18, 2020
MTA Posts Best January Metrics in Seven Years for NYC Subway, Eight
Years for LIRR, and Best Month on Metro-North in Almost Six Years
March 06, 2020
MTA Moving Forward with Signal Modernization of F Line with Project in
Southern Brooklyn
‘Culver Line’ Signal Modernization Project Will Improve Service
Reliability and Performance Throughout Entire F Line for Decades to
Come
Free Shuttle Bus and Alternate Train Service Will Temporarily Replace
F Train South of Church Av Most Weekends
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said that the next
phase of the Culver Line Signal Modernization project – which will
improve service reliability and performance throughout the line for
decades after its completion – will begin on Friday, March 20. The
$253 million project will replace 70-year-old signals between Church
Av and Coney Island and provide improved and more reliable service and
more efficient operations. An alternate service plan is in place and
the work is being done on weekends – with major holidays being avoided
– to minimize disruptions for the majority of the line’s customers.
Details have been noted in station signage and earlier notifications
to elected officials and community boards; the MTA has also launched
an inform
All I can say Mr. K is that I can understand why tipping is encouraged for meal service and for services provided by on-board coach and sleeping-car attendants.
But tips on rapid transit?
Are you on a crusade to remove imprecision from the English Language?
If you are in a crusade for more precise English:
A tip of my hat to you!
And this confusion is only the tip of an iceburg.
Just looking for the humor in the ambiguity in English-language words.
Glad to assist in my own way. What ever way you wish. Or way ehough? Or is it weigh enough? (The nautical term)
Pictures of the Distribution Are Available Here
Video of the distribution Is Available Here
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today helped distribute 47,484 COVID-19 testing kits to 106 nursing homes across New York City as well as personal protective equipment nursing home staff will use when administering the tests. Members of the MTA Police Department, New York City Transit, MTA Bridges and Tunnels and the MTA Bus Company worked alongside the National Guard to deliver the supplies, which were provided by New York State.
Positioning, The Next Generation
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
Former MTA New York City Transit Vice President Network and Resignaling Pete Tomlin. William C. Vantuono Photo.
Among the final duties that former MTA New York City Transit Vice President Network and Resignaling Pete Tomlin discharged before he left the agency following Andy Byford’s resignation as President was demonstrating an innovative piece of new technology—UWB (Ultra-Wide Band), wireless technology that offers faster and less-expensive installation of modern CBTC (communications-based train control) by eliminating much of the onboard and wayside equipment traditionally required for advanced-technology signaling. Tomlin—arguab
Mr. Klepper, all you had to do was link to the darn Railway Age article. It was mostly copied from press-release flackery; I suspect Mr. Vantuono is largely ignorant of modern broadband protocol details and it kinda shows in the article.
Giving Kinio’s actual explanation of UWB integration, rather than just referring to it in a photo caption, would have been highly interesting. But of course that would require actual journalism followed by actual technical-fact-checking editing.
I have permission to post material from the Transit Authority, but posting a competitor’s article on a Kalmach website is a no-no. You may enjoy pulling up one URL after another, but I enjoy reading material directly on this website, and I believe others may also. Also, some may wish to copy some of the photos for their own personal collections, which is easy to do on this website. I got this from an MTA Board Member, and I assume he wished me to forward it as prolifically as possible.
I do respect the technical expertese that Railway Age demonstrates and also find it on those occasions when Trains publishes a tecnnical article, like the great one on solving the double-stack derailment problem, which I doubt Railway Age would dare publish.
Cnsidering who sent the posting to me via regular email, I did not catch the Railway Age connection, and ask the moderator to remove the posting if I am violating policy. I should have checked the author.
Having posted it, I am reluctant to remove it unless necessary. I do believe it has already been widely destributed beyond Railway Age’s own readership.
There is no real reason to remove it; I’d assumed it came from the source and not via e-mail – the ‘photos pending’ probably in retrospect a tip-off this wasn’t from the Railway Age site.
There is, however, a sort of reminder here: when you see flack language in a piece of source material, it’s probably wiser to take a few notes and briefly paraphrase, rather than post at length verbatim.
I had a brief chuckle at the assertstion that UWB was a result of the TA’s initiative towards better CBTC technology in 2017. While I confess I was more in the WiMedia camp in the mid-2000s (seeing the same disaster in physical layer that we got in ATSC DTV instead of using some flavor of OFDM) the idea of standardized ultrawideband is far from new. On the other hand, it’s fully possible that the TA was influential in some way in reviving formal interest in a new ‘ultrawideband alliance’, which was established in the fall of 2018.
The only real reason I did not excerpt was to make the full set of photographs available to those who may wish to preserve them in their files. They are high-quality photos. Otherwise, I agree with you and generally do what you suggest.
There has to be some way to cite these stories so they can be linked on a phone and not rendered with their right-hand sides inaccessible and invisible.
Note the recent discussion in abother thread about setting up on-demand small bus transit service in communities that cannot support scheduled bus service. Here is what happens if you give savvy New Yorkers access to such a resource…
What came almost immediately to mind was something Columbia set up in the transit strike of the early '80s, a shuttle bus service that ran up from somewhere downtown to somewhere around 116th … I find I can’t remember exactly how it was routed. But it was something to behold drivers working extreme traffic in the afternoons going southbound, with inches of clearance on big MCI tag-axle buses. How much that cost them is something I never wanted to know…