NY1 Rail and Road

NY1 Rail and Road was a 24-hour cable news channel focusing exclusively on the vehicular traffic and mass transit conditions within the five boroughs of New York City. Owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016, the channel was a spin-off from its parent station NY1's popular report of the same name. It was available to New York City Spectrum subscribers on channel 214, and on channel 91 in New Jersey and Hudson Valley, until September 29, 2023 at 9:00 PM EDT.^[1] NY1 Rail and Road updated every five minutes and had feeds for four different zones (Manhattan and Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Hudson Valley.)^[2] The station aired a constant floating digital aerial map of New York City with a short anchor segment every half-hour, along with periodic cutaways indicating mass transit service changes.

NY1 Rail and Road

Country	United States
Broadcast area	NY metro area
Network	Spectrum News
Headquarters	New York, NY
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Charter Communications
Sister channels	NY1, NY1 Noticias
History
Launched	August 18, 2010; 15 years ago (August 18, 2010)
Closed	September 29, 2023 (2023-09-29)

The digital map (with data provided by INRIX) highlighted major streets which were color-coded according to the speed of traffic with INRIX's common coding, with black indicating a completely jammed or closed road, red indicating traffic flow of less than 25 miles per hour (dark red if around less than 15 mph), yellow 25–50 mph flow, and green little to no traffic.