A Journey Underground – East Side Access
Over the one hundred plus years of its existence, Grand Central Terminal has reinvented itself many times to keep pace with the needs of its customers. When long range passenger trains were the norm,...
Construction on East Side Access Project Halted Indefinitely
While celebrating Grand Central Terminal’s 100th anniversary, we discussed a wide array of topics regarding GCT’s history, and its place in our lives today. The one thing that we failed to mention was one...
Pac-Man Inspired Transit Maps
The subtitle of this post might as well be “stuff that happens when Emily gets bored.” For some reason I thought it might be amusing to make a completely useless Pac-Man transit map, where...
Journey the Harlem Line in 6 minutes: Grand Central to Southeast Time Lapse
Have you ever seen these awesome time lapse videos the MTA has done on the LIRR? When I first saw them, I decided I wanted to try the same thing at some point on...
Who Uses Web Ticket? Metro-North & LIRR Online Discounts to be Discontinued
Yesterday the New York Post reports that Metro-North and LIRR may be phasing out yet another thing to save money: the discounts for buying tickets online. I have to admit though, I am curious:...
LIRR’s Amusing Watch the Gap Rap
@LIRRScoop just tweeted a new video posted on YouTube, called the Gap Rap. I LOL’ed and had to share. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HszwgEdnOQw] I do think @MetroNorthTweet needs to teach @LIRRScoop to tweet, properly post links, and...