Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREThe MTA is on track to reach a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic: a day the subway carries one million riders.After bottoming out at on April 13 at nearly 366,000, weekday ridership has rebounded more than 150 percent, to nearly 950,000 people, thanks to straphangers like Deidre Johnson, a physical therapist who started riding the subway again three weeks ago to see patients.“I was a little nervous," Johnson said. "But I felt that the train was actually better than the bus. Buses...…Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREThe MTA is on track to reach a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic: a day the subway carries one million riders.After bottoming out at on April 13 at nearly 366,000, weekday ridership has rebounded more than 150 percent, to nearly 950,000 people, thanks to straphangers like Deidre Johnson, a physical therapist who started riding the subway again three weeks ago to see patients.“I was a little nervous," Johnson said. "But I felt that the train was actually better than the bus. Buses...WW…

Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREHasina Rahim has a long commute between her teaching job at a high school in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and her home in Ozone Park, Queens.“Oh my God, I’m so excited I don’t have to walk to Nostrand anymore," she told NY1. "I just get out here, the B44 bus, and the station.”Reopening the old entrances means Rahim and other riders no longer have to walk a quarter mile between the bus stop on Bedford Avenue, and the other station entrances on Nostrand.  These entrances were...…Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREHasina Rahim has a long commute between her teaching job at a high school in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and her home in Ozone Park, Queens.“Oh my God, I’m so excited I don’t have to walk to Nostrand anymore," she told NY1. "I just get out here, the B44 bus, and the station.”Reopening the old entrances means Rahim and other riders no longer have to walk a quarter mile between the bus stop on Bedford Avenue, and the other station entrances on Nostrand.  These entrances were...WW…

Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREDrivers are not happy with the MTA's plans to move ahead with toll increases at its nine bridges and tunnels, while delaying a planned hike in the bus and subway fare."It's ridiculous. It's crazy," said driver Stephen Fanuka while filling up his car."This is not the time to do anything like that. This is where everyone is focusing on trying to pay their bills, get by, keep their businesses still in tact."The MTA announced late Monday night that it is temporarily shelving the transit...…Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHAREDrivers are not happy with the MTA's plans to move ahead with toll increases at its nine bridges and tunnels, while delaying a planned hike in the bus and subway fare."It's ridiculous. It's crazy," said driver Stephen Fanuka while filling up his car."This is not the time to do anything like that. This is where everyone is focusing on trying to pay their bills, get by, keep their businesses still in tact."The MTA announced late Monday night that it is temporarily shelving the transit...WW…

Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHARENEW YORK - "Ugly” and “grim” - that’s how MTA officials described a budget that would drastically slash service and jobs - set to hit the riding public in May, unless the agency gets its federal bailout.MTA officials at its monthly board meeting offered more details on their threats to cut service between 40 and 50% and lay off thousands of workers to make up a budget shortfall caused by the coronavirus.“We are taking the approach of planning for the worst, but leaving room to adjust...…Open in Our AppGet the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app.SHARENEW YORK - "Ugly” and “grim” - that’s how MTA officials described a budget that would drastically slash service and jobs - set to hit the riding public in May, unless the agency gets its federal bailout.MTA officials at its monthly board meeting offered more details on their threats to cut service between 40 and 50% and lay off thousands of workers to make up a budget shortfall caused by the coronavirus.“We are taking the approach of planning for the worst, but leaving room to adjust...WW…