Category Archives: StationStops

TV Reporters Arrested While Filming Train Station

A reporter and camera man from Hartford TV station WFSB were arrested late last week by MTA police while filming a piece on a new train station in West Haven, Connecticut, reports the New Haven Register. Leon Collins and his … Continue reading

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A Peek Inside the New M8 Cars

Our Metro-North blogger brethren StationStops has some very well-produced video taken at the New Haven Metro-North station that offers a glimpse inside the futuristic M8 cars that are slated to pop up on the New Haven Line next year. StationStops … Continue reading

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Midnight 6-Train to Georgia

Our Metro-North-obsessed brethren Station Stops has some great video of an R&B singer named Alice Tan Ridley belting some tunes out in the subways. It’s the kind of stuff that makes you remember how great it is to live in … Continue reading

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How to Get 30 Seats to Yourself

The new 5:57 a.m. train rolling out of Waterbury, Conn. yesterday kicked off with much more of a whimper than a bang, reports the Hartford Courant. The good people of Waterbury petitioned the MTA for the early train (the earliest … Continue reading

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Why Metro-North Doesn’t Offer Wifi

Our fellow Metro-North blogger Station Stops wonders why Metro-North doesn’t offer hotspots for wireless webcrawling. He notes that the Gotham Gazette addressed this issue with a well-researched article way back in 2004, when laptops were the size of suitcases and … Continue reading

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