Hey, you know how the L train sucks, like, a lot? How it rarely runs on weekends, is mind-bogglingly crowded pretty much all the time, and is occasionally overtaken by Chippendale-lite male dancers? Well, the MTA knows, too! And they're coming to save you from your overcrowded commute, with the help of...one extra train. In December. more ›

It's no new news that many public schools are overcrowded but now a report from Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer says that 43% of Manhattan's elementary and middle schools are overcrowded. He warned, "This is a real escalation of a crisis we identified two years ago. If we can't figure this out, we're going to have a lot of people fleeing this city the way they did in the '70s because they don't think their children can get a good education." more ›

“Crushed by crowds? Have to wait for more than one bus to go by? It’s not your imagination. Transit officials have never caught up to the waves of new bus riders,” says Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign. His group is reporting that despite an increase in average weekday bus ridership of 22 percent over the past ten years (to 2.45 million), weekday service on city buses increased less than 15 percent. more ›