Transportation
NYC Subway Twitter Alerts Return After Musk Drops Fees for MTA
- Transit riders will see updates via Twitter after suspension
- Twitter had asked MTA to pay $50,000 a month, official says
A train arrives at the Coney Island subway station at night in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergNew York City’s subways, buses and commuter rails are once again using Twitter for real-time transit alerts after the platform owned by Elon Musk backed down from its plan to charge government entities for using the service.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the nation’s largest mass-transit provider, resumed tweeting on Thursday.