Tag: Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Roadbuilding

NYC subway to phase out MetroCards for mobile pay system

New York subway riders will be able to board the system without having to swipe a MetroCard as soon as 2019, under a new plan approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board. The MTA board has approved a contract to phase in a new fare system for bus and rail transit. The MetroCard, in use […]

October 26, 2017

Roadbuilding

Two workers injured in fall on NYC’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Two construction workers were injured on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge during rush hour October 20 when they fell 15 feet. Pix 11 reports a spokesman from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said the two men were carrying a wooden board on the upper roadway around 7:35 a.m. when a car hit the board and threw the men from the upper […]

October 26, 2016

Roadbuilding

NYC DOT testing a new asphalt mixture

The New York City Department of Transportation quest for a long lasting asphalt mixture has the state trying out a few different types. Specifically, West Fingerboard Road on Staten Island will be testing a new, rubberized asphalt that will potentially increase the durability of roads. “There a plenty of positives to rubberized asphalt,” Galileo Orlando, DOT […]

January 2, 2015

Roadbuilding

Verrazano-Narrows bridge receives 50th anniversary exhibit

The Verrazano-Narrows bridge that connects Staten Island and Brooklyn will have its 50th birthday celebrated with an exhibit chronicling its construction. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unveiled the exhibit , “Spanning the Narrows for Five Decades.” It celebrates the half centennial of the bridge with pictures of its construction, parts that were formerly on the bridge and […]

August 21, 2014