Articles tagged “subway”

MTA's Flickr page started attracting fans last year with rare photos of an empty city during Hurricane Sandy. It has since chronicled the current-day construction of the NYC transit system, a digital time capsule that will surely be looked at for generations to come.

New York City subway campaigns are one of the easiest and most expensive ways to capture an attentive audience. The campaign is particularly clever since New Yorkers and visitors can take public transit directly to the destinations advertised.

Despite the changes in technology, subway tokens, and fares, we're still running for the train, chatting with friends on the platform, and using the subway as the fastest way from point A to B in NYC. How much will change in another video dated 2121?

New Yorkers don't have to worry about losing those few moments of disconnectivity since Wi-Fi still won’t be available on moving trains; however, MTA officials say it could happen in the future.

All subway activity seems to be operating with the same goal: Reduce any opportunity for eye contact or any type of interaction with another rider.

The genius of Beck's initial design defined transit maps for the twentieth century, and it will be thrilling to see a descendant emerge who can define the twenty-first.

It’s only a matter of time before live updates are available for all public transit, but it could be longer than expected with many cities’ not yet able to process or share that level of data.

This makes more sense than the paper pamphlet turnstiles that are largely ignored by tourists and service announcements that are impossible for locals to hear.

Christmas came early this year for design geeks and straphangers. Fingers crossed that a publisher will snap up the rights for the manual.

The development London underwent to get ready for last summer's Olympic Games but it in the right frames of mind to finally fix its Battersea problem.