The Metropolitan Transit Authority board voted this morning for an unprecedented cut of service in order to get closer to closing their massive budget deficit.  In an almost unanimous vote (two members voted against the measure), the MTA board made service cuts, worth $93 million, official.  The cuts leave millions of straphangers and tens of [...]

As part of the MTA’s doomsday proposal for service cuts that includes elimination of discounts to students and partial or total shutdown of subway lines, three of the five crosstown bus routes will be eliminated at night.  Gothamist reports that the M66, M79, and M96 buses will stop running for late night time slots, making [...]