by Alex Marshall, Editor, Spotlight on the Region
New York One, the news channel received by Time Warner Cable subscribers, will start tonight at 8:45 p.m. a new weekly show about the city's mass transit system called In Transit. It will broadcast every Friday night at 8:45 with reruns at 11:15 a.m. and p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The show's creators claim it is the only weekly news program specifically about New York City's mass transit system.
That is almost certainly the case. It is also evidence that the city's subways and buses have come up quite a bit from their poor state of affairs in decades past. Who a few decades ago could have imagined people willingly spending more time, even remotely, within a subway or bus after enduring them during the day?
But the city's transit system has changed. Although it is still in need of lots of repair and additions, it has become a generally pleasant place, even a place where people make friends and meet future romantic partners. None of this was imaginable twenty years ago, when the only visible goal was to make the shaky system at least moderately tolerable.
The show will feature news and in-depth reports about the city's transit system, but will also do lighter features about its history, about its role in movies and television, and about the musicians and others who perform within it. Bobby Cuza, the station's transit reporter, will anchor it.
New York One, the news channel received by Time Warner Cable subscribers, will start tonight at 8:45 p.m. a new weekly show about the city's mass transit system called In Transit. It will broadcast every Friday night at 8:45 with reruns at 11:15 a.m. and p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The show's creators claim it is the only weekly news program specifically about New York City's mass transit system.
That is almost certainly the case. It is also evidence that the city's subways and buses have come up quite a bit from their poor state of affairs in decades past. Who a few decades ago could have imagined people willingly spending more time, even remotely, within a subway or bus after enduring them during the day?
But the city's transit system has changed. Although it is still in need of lots of repair and additions, it has become a generally pleasant place, even a place where people make friends and meet future romantic partners. None of this was imaginable twenty years ago, when the only visible goal was to make the shaky system at least moderately tolerable.
The show will feature news and in-depth reports about the city's transit system, but will also do lighter features about its history, about its role in movies and television, and about the musicians and others who perform within it. Bobby Cuza, the station's transit reporter, will anchor it.
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