Today only about 30 percent of the subway’s usual 5.5 million weekday riders are using the system.īut like so much else this year, even the new map has not been untouched by the pandemic.

The digital map is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s latest effort to modernize the antiquated system: Transit officials recently announced that they had rolled out the agency’s contactless payment system - which allows riders to pay a fare by tapping their credit card or cellphone onto an electronic reader - to nearly 80 percent of subway stations.īoth technological advancements have been hailed as major wins for the agency, even as it grapples with the worst financial crisis in its history, a pandemic that ripped through its work force, sickening thousands of transit workers, and a ridership that has cratered. Kathy Hochul abandoned plans to build an AirTrain to the site. La Guardia Airport: New York transportation authorities appear poised to improve bus service to the airport after Gov.The Return of ‘Train Daddy’: Andy Byford, who won the nickname and praises for his work as president of New York City Transit, will run Amtrak’s new high-speed rail development program.Plan B for Penn Station : With the initial plan to renovate the train station all but dead, a new proposal has emerged that calls for the construction of a rectangular glass station around Madison Square Garden.

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