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Special MTA Car Spots Defects Along Subway Tracks

2015-01-08 11:17:53| Railroads - Topix.net

Straphangers are familiar with those station announcements blaming delays on a rail condition, but there's a special train designed to keep them from spoiling your commute. NY1 transit reporter Jose Martinez took a ride to see how it works and filed the following report.

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No. 7 subway will be disrupted, suspended for 11 weekends

2015-01-06 22:01:24| Railroads - Topix.net

No. 7 trains will be suspended from Times Square/42nd St. to Queensboro Plaza for four weekends starting Jan. 17. Weekend subway riders who take the No. 7 train are in for a rougher and slower ride this year - again.

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'Manspreading'? But women hog subway space, too

2015-01-06 03:32:16| Railroads - Topix.net

As we enter 2015, the latest feminist crusade seems to come straight from the life-imitates-satire department. It has everything one could want in a caricature of feminism: petty grievances, gleeful male-bashing, egregious double standards.

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MTA Removes Alarms on Some Emergency Subway Exits

2015-01-01 17:39:40| Railroads - Topix.net

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority started removing the alarms in 2013 after riders complained about the high-pitched ringing that was set off when people went through the exits.

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