Council Speaker Johnson Joins Calls for Knocking Down the BQE
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Other cities have done it — and broken the car culture at the same time — so the possible future mayor says we should dream, too.
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Feds Must Fix Hudson River Tunnel Before Catastrophic Failure Cripples New York
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The Regional Plan Association estimates that a failure of the tunnel would cost billions to the New York region and send home values plummeting.
Trump’s Federal Transit Administration Has Gone Rogue
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Donald Trump's U.S. DOT is refusing to do its job when it comes to transit, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Trump Administration Withholding $1.4 Billion in Transit Funds Authorized by Congress
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The money is ready and waiting. Yet only one transit project has received funding this fiscal year, putting more than a dozen others in jeopardy.
Slowly and Stealthily, Trump’s DOT Starves Transit Expansion Projects of Federal Funds
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The Trump administration has slowed the release of federal transit grants to such a crawl that expansion projects in the works for years are now in jeopardy.
Trump Admin Snuffs Out Climate Progress at U.S. DOT
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The Trump administration has eliminated an Obama-era rule to encourage transportation policies that reduce the threat of catastrophic climate change.