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Descend the stairs of the Union Square–14th Street subway station, and you’ll trade the aroma of hot nuts sold by street vendors for a blast of warm air. As you swipe your MetroCard through the turnstile and make your way to the platform, you’ll be accompanied by the sound of a subway performer’s guitar and […]
Photo by Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Invision for SUBWAY Restaurants/AP Images Subway’s CEO, Suzanne Greco, is retiring after 45 years at the company. Subway has struggled in recent years, losing more than 900 locations in the US last year and recently announcing plans to close roughly 500 more in 2018. Many franchisees had previously criticized Greco to Business […]
Flickr/MTA A New York Times report found that NYC transit projects cost far more than in comparable cities throughout the world. The costs result from generous compensation for workers and high costs from contractors. The report found that unions and contractors donated millions to political campaigns, including those involving New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Subway is facing declining sales and hundreds of store closures. The chain — which long promoted an “eat fresh” philosophy — has failed to keep up with American consumers’ demands for local ingredients. Franchisees and workers said that locations can only get one or two shipments of produce a week, sometimes resulting […]
Henry Grabar/Slate To understand the appeal of New York City’s Rockaway Ferry, try getting to its landing, which floats behind a giant water-treatment plant on a desolate stretch of Beach Channel Drive in the Rockaways, Queens’ beach-fronted peninsula of bungalows and housing projects. Riding an outbound subway train toward the beach on Monday morning, I […]
Toronto’s subway stations and trains had the highest levels of air pollution of Canada’s three major rapid transit systems, following by Montreal’s Metro and Vancouver’s Skytrain systems, a newly released study has found. CBC | Health News
