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Good morning on this very chilly Monday morning.

The era of the $2.75 fare is upon us.

The base fare rose from $2.50 on Sunday.

But will anything else about the subway change?

“We are seeing a system that is bursting at the seams in terms of increased ridership,” Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, told The Times last week.

That has translated into delays and more crowded trains, M.T.A. data reveals.

And that’s not all, according to the Riders Alliance, an advocacy group that collected nearly 400 subway “horror” stories last week to push for an M.T.A. capital plan.

People complained of trains never arriving, of dangerously overcrowded platforms and of unintelligible announcements.

The scariest stories involved getting stuck on a train underground.

“After an hour and 20 minutes the train finally evacuated the passengers,” a passenger named Ana K. wrote of a particularly bad ride on the M on Dec. 11.

“We were maybe 30 feet from the 23rd Street station, but they wouldn’t let anyone get off the train earlier.”

Leslie L. topped that, with the tale of standing on a 7 train for three hours over the winter when the third rail lost power.

The highest number of complaints concerned the G, 7 and L trains (last week, the L shut down twice during the morning rush).

John Raskin, the director of the advocacy group, said he was “surprised by the depth of the passion” in the complaints.

“It’s not just a matter of inconvenience. It’s personal and it’s visceral.”

(While you’re waiting for your train: DNAinfo has a chart showing which lines had the most delays in 2014).

Here’s what else is happening:

WEATHER

Where can we lodge weather complaints?

It’s 25 degrees this morning, with a wind chill of 18.

It will climb only to 37, but it will be sunny.

March hasn’t been as unusually cold as February was, but it’s still been a little more than 3 degrees below normal so far.

Normal high this time of year: 52.

COMING UP TODAY

• Three borough presidents are on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show to talk about issues facing Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx residents. 10 a.m.

• A rally on the steps of City Hall for a plastic bag reduction bill that would charge 10 cents per paper or plastic bag. Noon.

• The mayor speaks about transportation issues at a conference of mayors in Boston. 12:30 p.m. [Livestream]

• Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, announces a safety education campaign for Brooklyn after a fire on Saturday killed seven children in Midwood. 2 p.m.

• The playwright Suzan-Lori Parks works on her latest project under the peaceful glow of a webcam, at the Public Theater. 2 p.m. [Livestream]

• A panel on the career paths of women in hip-hop, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. 6:30 p.m. [Free, R.S.V.P.]

• Knicks host Grizzlies, 7:30 p.m. (MSG). Nets host Celtics, 7:30 p.m. (YES). Devils host Kings, 7 p.m. (MSG+)

• For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.

COMMUTE

• Subway and PATH

• Railroads: L.I.R.R., Metro-North, N.J. Transit, Amtrak

• Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.

• Alternate-side parking: in effect until April 2, weather permitting.

• Ferries: Staten Island Ferry, New York Waterway, East River Ferry

• Airports: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark

IN THE NEWS

• Thousands attended a “brief, intense funeral” for seven Orthodox Jewish children who died in a fire in Midwood on Saturday. [New York Times]

• A human torso and bones were found in the park in Gravesend, Brooklyn, where a hand a foot were discovered in January. [Daily News]

• Asphalt is in high demand after a particularly pothole-inducing winter. [New York Times]

• Governor Cuomo is fighting a rating system that found less than 1 percent of teachers in the state ineffective over all. [New York Times]

• Mayor de Blasio and Rudolph W. Giuliani have teamed up to push for an extension of a law that gives the mayor control over the city school system. [Daily News]

• City officials are expected to announce broad changes to the city’s summons system this week, including tighter controls over police-issued summonses. [Wall Street Journal, subscription required]

• A new study shows mussel beds could help protect the city’s shoreline during future storms. [Crain’s New York]

• Scoreboard: Rangers shoot Ducks, 7-2. Raptors pick apart Knicks, 106-89.

• For a global look at what’s happening, see your Monday Briefing.

AND FINALLY …

Two years from now, as night falls, the streets of the city will be bathed in a bright white glow, not unlike the light emitted by a smartphone screen.

The city is in the process of replacing its 250,000 sodium vapor streetlights with energy-saving light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, The Times reports.

So far, in Brooklyn, where the first LEDs have been installed in Windsor Terrace and Kensington, reviews are mixed.

“It feels like I’m in a strip mall in outer space,” one resident said.

Another said the lights were “so cold and blue, it’s like ‘Night of the Living Dead’ out there.”

Kenneth Rosen contributed reporting.

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