Posts Tagged ‘MTA’
Clocking Your Commute
March 12, 2010 – Columbia News Tonight
Reporter: Angelica Spanos
Producer: Kethevane Gorjestani
A New York minute is said to be a second, but who’s counting? The MTA is starting to. It is installing LED screens that count down the minutes until your train arrives.
End of the line: MTA uses retired subway cars from 207th Street Yard for artificial reef program
Written with Zack Seward
First published on January 5, 2009 in the Manhattan Times
Barge transporting subways on the east river
Dumping old subway cars into the ocean may seem like bad news for the environment. But by all accounts a Metropolitan Transportation Authority program doing just that is greatly improving sea life along the eastern seaboard.
The MTA artificial reef program takes worn out subway cars and drops them onto the ocean floor. Over 2,400 cars have been sunk off the coasts of six states, from New Jersey to Georgia. (more…)