A teenager was gravely injured after falling under an MTA train while “subway surfing,” authorities said. The incident ...
“The trains can make a sudden motion and then you’re done,” said Luis Rivera, a transit enthusiast who speaks with the younger generation about the risk of subway surfing. The MTA and the ...
The teen was rushed to an Elmhurst hospital in critical condition. So-called subway surfing has become such a problem that Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City leaders launched a comprehensive public ...
He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, police said. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, according to authorities.
The MTA recently purchased a few new subway cars that don’t have the outdoor gaps exploited by subway surfers, but they represent just a sliver of the number currently in service, and won’t be ...
MTA leadership says the agency is incorporating cost-saving lessons learned from the first go around in some key ways: It ...
Google partnered with the MTA on a pilot program that involved using sounds recorded on smartphones attached to trains to detect track issues before they occur.
Google Public Sector, which partners with government agencies, last year installed across trains Pixel smartphones that could ...
But the MTA’s reach is massive; it’s the country’s largest public transit system with 472 subway stations and 237 local bus routes, according to MTA data. In 2024, the agency says there were ...