Reporting on New York City: Transit & Transportation
Transit & Transportation
The city's subways and buses are operated by New York City Transit (NYCT), a division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a state agency. The MTA also operates the regional commuter lines the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad.
The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) maintains city streets and sidewalks, bus lanes and bus shelters, and implements street design changes. NYC DOT also operates the Staten Island Ferry.
The NYC Ferry network is owned by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and is privately operated. The public bicycle sharing system Citi Bike is privately owned and operated.
- Citi Bike System DataDownloadable Citi Bike trip data, released monthly, and real-time feeds to answer questions such as, Where do Citi Bikers ride? When do they ride? Which stations are most popular?
- MTA Performance MetricsExtensive, interactive dashboards of subway, bus, paratransit, and commuter rail ridership, service delivered, and other stats.
- MTA Realtime Data FeedsGTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) data feeds for the subway, LIRR, Metro-North, service alerts, and elevators and escalators. Tip: Using GTFS feeds, Philippe Vibien has created a tool called NYC Subway Stringlines—time and distance charts which illustrate the movement of trains between stations over time—for each subway line.
- NYC DOT Data FeedsA wide range of transportation data, including bicycle counts, bridge ratings, parking meter rates, public benches, real-time traffic speeds, and more.
- NYPD Traffic DataData on moving violation summonses (traffic tickets or "B summonses"), motor vehicle collisions, leaving the scene, traffic fatalities, and more, in Excel and PDF formats.
- Vision Zero ViewAn interactive map of traffic fatality and injury crash data from the city's Vision Zero initiative. Also includes tabs for Street Design improvements and mapped Speed Limits.
- Subway and bus ridership for 2023Overviews of subway and bus ridership for the most recent year from the MTA. Download route-specific data at the bottom of the page.
