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MTA Announces Enhancements to Email and Text Message Service Alerts
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announces two important enhancements to the email and text message alerts that notify customers of temporary changes to subway, bus and rail service. First, you can now opt to receive information only about planned service changes. This will allow you to opt out of receiving information about unplanned service disruptions. Second, you can now suspend your subscription for a predetermined or indefinite period of time, like when you're on vacation.
If you're still not a subscriber, the service is now better then ever - with more ways to tailor the settings so you receive information matching your exact needs and preferences. Sign up today to know before you go. Visit mymtaalerts.com to create an account and begin receiving real-time status updates or information about planned maintenance work on your subway, bus, rail and/or bridge and tunnel route today!
Public Discussion Begins on Service Changes
In December, the MTA was forced to set out a series of service reductions to close a nearly $400 million budget shortfall due to State cuts and loss of revenue. Over the past month, MTA Chairman Jay Walder has reviewed these changes to find ways to limit their impact on customers. An unprecedented level of detail is now available here on how the changes were chosen and the impacts they will have, well in advance of public hearings to be held around the region in early March. read more
Making Every Dollar Count
New MTA Chairman and CEO Jay H. Walder spent his first 100 days on the job riding our trains and buses, talking with customers and employees, and studying MTA operations. The result is "Making Every Dollar Count," a report that outlines plans for cutting costs and improving service during difficult times.
Read the full report
Read Chairman Walder's speech
View a video on the report
Read the press release
Other News
Keeping Service Moving During the Snowstorm
Providing safe, reliable service has always been MTA New York City Transit's top priority. During inclement weather, especially snow storms, NYC Transit works even harder to ensure riders get to where they need to go safely and quickly. read more
MTA New York City Transit Keeps Trains Rolling During Winter Weather
Providing safe, reliable service has always been MTA New York City Transit's top priority. During inclement weather, especially snow storms, NYC Transit works even harder to ensure riders get to where they need to go safely and quickly. read more
Snow Removal Goes High Tech
When winter storms hit and snow operations go into effect, MTA Bridges and Tunnels' fleet rolls out to get the job done. But make no mistake; these are not your father's snow plows. Snow removal has definitely gone high-tech. read more
Welcome to the new mta.info
One look will tell you that our website has a new design that's simpler and more focused on our customers. The home page includes our new Plan&Ride trip planner alongside real-time service status information. Maps and schedules are better organized, and everything you need for your daily commute or a night on the town is just one or two mouse clicks away. You can even follow the MTA on Facebook and Twitter; and if you're a software developer looking for MTA data, we've got a page for you too.
Take a quick look at a few of our new features, read our press release, or just start clicking around to discover what's new at mta.info for you.
LIRR Partners with CooCoo to Provide Timely Travel Information Via Text Messaging
MTA Long Island Rail Road customers can now get train schedules and specific travel plans sent to their cell phones as part of a pilot partnership with CooCoo, the Long Island-based text engine company that provides data via text message for standard text fees. A LIRR customer can use any cell phone to text a travel request - simply text CooCoo or 266266 (which spells CooCoo) and get an immediate response... read more
Newest Rail Cars Arrive in New Haven
New Haven Line customers know it as the M-8. Could there be a less glamorous name for the object of their desire? The newest rail cars in Metro-North's fleet are tantalizingly close at hand... read more
MTA NYC Transit Introduces New Articulated Bus into SBS service; Three Doors - Less Waiting
An MTA New York City Transit bus with three doors, low floor and a clean running engine sounds like something from the future, doesn't it? Well, the future has arrived on the Bx12 Select Bus Service route with the introduction of the first of 90 new easy-entry articulated buses. read more
Building the New LIRR Terminal Beneath Grand Central Terminal
Unbeknownst to most New Yorkers, construction of a new landmark commuter rail terminal is underway far below Park Avenue and the historic Grand Central Terminal. read more