The Westchester County Bee-Line bus system will make seasonal route changes Feb. 15 to meet demands. Here’s the announcement:

BEE-LINE BUSES TO MAKE WINTER SCHEDULE CHANGES
Service to be increased on some routes and reduced on others
Schedules on several bus routes will change on February 15 when the Bee-Line System implements its winter service changes.
“We will be adding or extending trips on Read more of this entry »

There’s a lot of pain all around in Gov. David Paterson’s $134 billon state budget plan released Tuesday. Some of it will fall on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which would get $104 million less than had been expected.

Jay Walder, the MTA chairman and chief executive, reacted to the budget with a statement Read more of this entry »

The Haverstraw-Ossining ferry passengers will board the boat again tomorrow after more than two weeks of taking a bus instead, Metro-North announced.

Since Jan. 4, they have had to take a bus between the Haverstraw parking lot and the Tarrytown train station because that cold snap we just finished shivering through Read more of this entry »

On the new MTA Web site, unveiled today, you can check some Metro-North stations to see whether the next few trains are on time or late.

A trip planning corner allows you to map your route from one place to another. Read more of this entry »

In Rockland, where many feel they pay more for Metro-North services than they get in return, two legsilators are planning “strong” objections to the latest plan to cut train runs.

The railroad’s parent agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is looking at many Read more of this entry »

Maybe some people were sluggish and reluctant to venture out in the bitter cold last weekend, but not Metro-North. The railroad reports that every one of its trains made every stop on time.

That’s 757 one-way runs on the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines and 76 trains run by the NJ Transit for  the railroad on the Pascack Valley and Port Jervis lines.

With a showing like that, Read more of this entry »

The New York Water Taxi service from Yonkers to Manhattan, ending Dec. 31, simply never drew the customers it needed to stay afloat. (Sorry. It’s a pun no one can seem to resist.)

The company announced the end of service on its Web site. I’ll include the text below.

The ferry service was run with millions of dollars in grants and loans and originally was part of an effort to get people back into lower Manhattan following 9/11. Because it used a Lower Manhattan Development Corp grant, it was limited to only serving lower Manhattan, rather than Midtown.

When that money ran out, Read more of this entry »

The Obama administration’s new 3-hour limit for stranding airline passengers on the tarmac is great news for travelers who get stuck (though the airline industry says the move will cause more flight cancellations), but it won’t have much impact on Westchester County Airport.

Airport manager Peter Scherrer said passengers don’t get stranded that long on stuck airplanes there. Part of the reason, he said, is that the airport controls all four gates, unlike Read more of this entry »

Amtrak, like everything else in the Northeast, was hit hard by the weekend snow storm, and is still recovering. But the railroad wants people to know what it did accomplish while everyone was struggling.

So here’s a statement just out from Amtrak. It’s in quotes, though not attributed to any particular Amtrak official…

WASHINGTON— “As the Northeast continues to dig out from Read more of this entry »

I’m checking out the announcement that the New York City council is about to grant people who park in the city a break of they’re a couple of minutes late getting back to their cars.

To do this, they are defying Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who shows no great love for those who drive to his fair city. According to the Associated Press story (below), Bloomberg says the law would lead to chaos.

Chaos?

Doesn’t that seem a bit extreme? Read more of this entry »

It’s Monday and Amtrak is still seeing some delays around these parts from the winter storm that blew through over the weekend.

Some regular trains in the Northeast are being cancelled. The Acela Express service is mostly Read more of this entry »

AAA New York has released its list of the worst bridges in the area, and the Tappan Zee Bridge tops the list.

The 54-year-old span across the Hudson River took the honor because of its inadequacy Read more of this entry »

In some states, it’s illegal to drive within three feet of a cyclist riding a bicycle on a road. Now State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin wants the same rule passed in New York.

The Scarsdale Democrat is proposing the three-foot rule days after Greenburgh cyclist Merrill Cassell died when he was sideswiped by a bus and fell under it.

I’m looking for people’s thoughts Read more of this entry »

I always thought the first official sign of Christmas was when Santa Claus pulls up the rear or the Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan. But another, lesser-known tradition comes Saturday when the Radio City Rockettes ride Metro-North trains to Croton-Harmon and Stamford train stations.

The high-steppers will step off the trains Read more of this entry »

I learned, almost the hard way, that if the ticket machine isn’t working at your Metro-North stop, you still have to pay the on-board penalty of about $6 per ride. But the railroad has a way to pay you back.

Here’s the thing: About a week ago (Sun., Nov. 1), I was riding the train out Read more of this entry »