Station tours are great Mystic, keep em coming

I do think congestion pricing is reducing traffic, increasing in subway and bus ridership, and the MTA has already started to use its money generated from congestion pricing to buy 265 new electric buses. By the way, welcome back!

Genuine question: Is it possible to avoid the congestion pricing when going from Brooklyn to NJ by staying on the highway around Manhattan?

The r211 is so bad, it looks like it's from the stone age. All of them should have accordions. There's no reason why the MTA couldn't do anything meaningful with the r211 with all of the space they have. Meanwhile, TFL's 2024 stock has much more meaningful stuff with the limited space they have.

This is awesome. Here in LA I don't think it would be fair to implement congestion pricing yet since most people have to drive to get around because of the lack of good transit and how spread out the region is. That means lower income people who have no choice but to drive would be badly affected with no alternatives. But we are building out our metro network, bus lanes, and bike lanes, and as we do, I hope we can implement this.

Only the rich should drive 💪

I'm never a fan of toll and stuffs like that, but cannot deny the improvement...

Can you make a video should the G train be extended to forest hills

Its great to see this happen. But we really need to push further and take advantage of reduced traffic and reprioritize the space, rather than just letting those who pay drive more recklessly in clear space. What comes to mind: 1) fully pedestrianize 5th, 8th, Park, and Broadway, from 125th to the battery. Leave bus + bike lanes, protected, but otherwise it should be pedestrian + public space minus a brief overnight delivery window. Then do the core commercial cross streets 2) expand all the Manhattan parks + Penn Station/MSG + Times Square + Grand Central to have fully car free streets around them. Let the parks department do what they want with the space. If I were them, I'd put extensive kids play equipment along 5th Av and Central Park West 3) start charging for parking for all Manhattan, at auction prices. Let businesses bid for it And in transit, obviously a lot to do. For starters, perfect time to go to Alstom/Siemens and do a start building a central running, separated, signal prioritized tram network to replace much of the Manhattan SBS network. 6-8 minute frequencies would be a game changer for the city. These changes make it even more important to extend transit into underserved communities in South Brooklyn, Eastern Queens, and Staten Island. And to figure out frequent, through running regional rail for all the suburban areas. Adams/Hochul are awful planners. We need better to press forward and make this work long term.

Well it certainly looks alot less congested ive always said if u want to go to lower Manhattan just take the train no toll

Im glad that this policy is finally in effect. Making the city safer and allowing us to finally fix and expand the subway!

It is all a bunch of garbage.Your governor in New York did Manhattan DA and a New York city.Mayor need to be removed from office to add money to the mta.Coofish really at $3 a ride for a trip.That's a bunch of Your democratic Politicians are the ones that are destroying these cities. New York never had this kind of tax for what?

The anti congestion talk has now moved onto saying "trains are overpacked" 😭

Seems to be doing exactly as it's intended. Just to highlight how short-sighted and ignorant some of the anti-Congestion Pricing people are, there was a lady on Tiktok who went on a rant saying that we should boycott the MTA by not driving into the Congestion Relief Zone and take the train instead. You aren't boycotting anything. That's literally the entire purpose of Congestion Pricing. You can't make this stuff up folks!

Pretty sure every NJT Bus Fare to NYC is about to skyrocket to the heavens

Look at London why this is a failure and a stupid idea. And also you can’t just look at traffic in manhattan you have to look at Brooklyn traffic which is worse and jersey traffic which is worse This scheme is only in to make money it will not reduce traffic and will not make better air quality

Now buses aren’t stuck in gridlock and I can’t walk faster than cars in Midtown. Often. It was faster to me to walk from 5th Ave to 10th Ave and pass several M34 buses.

It’s pretty funny to see all the people who are complaining and saying it would be the downfall of the city posting reels about what driving is now like. It did exactly what it was meant to do which is reduce traffic and discourage driving. And then for the people who do come in it’s about as smooth as it’s ever been without a pandemic. A lot of them are saying hey expand it even further, I like not being bumper-to-bumper all the time

Amazing work Mystic Transit 👍 ✅ 💯 ❤❤❤❤

I live outside of the zone and I'm so happy for it.

Yippee!

Hopefully MTA uses this opportunity to grow thier commuter express network and ridership

I am glad they just implemented this due to the heavy traffic in manhattan

it also sounds like the neighborhoods got quieter! what an improvement!

I’m so happy this policy is finally implemented

I still think they should have put the tolls below 59th street. A lot of people are not entering lower Manhattan and just want to take the bridge to Long Island city.

Are the trains more congested now?

Why I understand the frustration of NYErs having to pay more than what they’re already paying for taxes and tolls, at least we know for sure congestion pricing is going to prioritize transit improvements, reduce congestion speed up traffic for emergency vehicles and buses and improve air quality

Wow, it really did help! I’m glad they did this, hopefully now the MTA can get to work on system rehabilitation and new projects more quickly than before

It's a pretty noticible improvement.

Hey MysticTransit.

Yes it has! 🎉🎉🎉

man the 1 is always giving me problems 😂

I’m order my 2025-29 Alstom R262 Subway Cars for New York City Transit and replacing R62/R62A/R142A’s are being scrap and R142As is a Bad Train and being scrap in the Future

Why Does it say Eastern Pkway Local On The 5 Train?

Extend that shit to Canarsie it’s a DEADZONE out here .

Faster to me means speed not stop spacing or amount of stops and we know if the S & 7 were to interline the 7 would perform way better let’s acknowledge that 1 stop doesn’t mean shit, it’s how fast we move to it

I mean it’s easier to move around & find a seat if one section is crowded however . Homelessness , criminals would take an advantage and numbers would be large . Atleast the cart separation with doors that can be locked is more protective .

13:05 I also saw one video years ago by MarshelaPete of the JFK Express that I still remember and what I recall is that the JFK Express was being held up at Rockaway Blvd due to either the (A) or (C) heading the same way as the train itself

Every three minutes isn’t possible people fuck stuff up 😂

We are starting off 2025! Strong 2 elevators in 1 month Westchester Square and Queensboro Plaza

6 train, not 6 line.

The whole train station needs an upgrade!!

68s are my fav

What on earth do "yes" and "no" buttons on an elevator do?

what about the new elevators on the woodhaven blvd station on the J and Z lines

It finally open 👏🏽 and I knew it all along, when I was 17 years old back in 2008 and I said to myself this station was expected to have a fully accessible station in the future. In fact, it’s the first time in 35 years to have a second elevator at this station on the elevated stations since Pelham Bay Park was the first accessible station that was installed between Late December 1989 or Early January 1990

New display only shows one symbol/ letter ? Surely in 2025, for 260 million, we can have more Say “ street , mezzanine, and trains “

Overall, MTA is SO BEHIND the times.