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By Drew Grant 1/10 12:14pm

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Livery cabs about to get less shady (Getty Images)

Black Cabs to Come With Option of Soothing/Nauseating Taxi TV

Livery cab services, better known as "those black cabs you hail down on a Saturday night in Brooklyn when you can't find anything else, and who end up charging you $25 to go from Williamsburg to the Lower East Side but what are you going to do?" (or alternately: "Those cars that take you to the airport,") are getting their rides pimped out by the city.

Yes, your favorite part of regular taxis--those looping segments of Talk Stoop, weather reports, and Jimmy Fallon segments will be coming to a shady backseat near you. Honk! But here's the good news: those little television screens won't be a requirement for black cabs as they are for the yellow, making them already 100 times better.

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1 By The Editors 11/01/11 7:03pm

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Next Stop: Secaucus

Before long, the Manhattan terminus of the No. 7 train will move west, from Times Square to the Hudson Yards on the far West Side. That’s good, but renewed talk of extending the subway line under the Hudson River to Secaucus in New Jersey is even better. Read More

2 By Matt Chaban 10/20/11 6:12pm

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The Visionary and the Bean Counter: Can Joe Lhota Get the M.T.A. on the Right Track?

When Jay Walder resigned from the M.T.A. earlier this year, the transportation community was mortified. Here was their messiah leaving for Hong Kong, his work barely begun. Transit wonks could hardly fathom who could take over for Mr. Walder, continuing his formidable task of transforming the agency in ways both subtle—cutting $4 billion in waste and efficiencies—and not—underground cellphones, Oyster cards, Bus Rapid Transit.

They were looking in the wrong place. Read More

By The Editors 10/05/10 4:59pm

Elegy For a Train Tunnel

Capital New York's got a solid piece on the likelihood that Governor Chris Christie will shelve plans to build a new train tunnel under the Hudson River, a project known as ARC (it stands for "Access to the Region's Core"). 

The project would do the following: 

Named "Access to the Region's Core," or A.R.C., the project Read More

By The Editors 9/20/10 5:25pm

‘Birdshit Architects’ and Other Jan Gehl-isms

A talk given by Jan Gehl, the profanity-loving Danish urban planner, cult figure and rarely recognized inspiration behind the pedestrian plazas and bike lanes popping up throughout the city, is profiled in this week's Capital New York. 

The talk gives a fairly good sense of Mr. Gehl's urban planning philosophies, and, ergo, the philosophies driving Transportation Read More

By Laura Kusisto 9/10/10 4:39pm

A Streetcar Desired in Redhook

Finally Red Hook may get the public transportation solution Brooklynites have been auditioning for all these years.

"City eyes putting transit dinosaurs back on track in Red Hook, Brooklyn," reads this morning's New York Daily News headline. Streetcars, which seemingly went the way of bowler hats and impromptu musical numbers, could be the latest (if Read More

By Dan Duray 5/19/10 1:01am

How About Some TLC?

Cabbies get paid to take passengers for a ride, but more than 600 have been taking liberties with that job description. According to the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates the cab industry, more than 21,000 passengers were charged out-of-city fares even though they never strayed beyond Gotham's well-defined boundaries. That's not good-for the Read More