Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Fare Hikes

Transit Cuts Report Underscores Cities’ Congressional Influence

By Elana Schor | Aug 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

In a report released this morning, Transportation for America (T4A) expands on its months-long effort to map transit cutbacks across the nation and concludes that 10 of the largest 25 local agencies are being forced to hike fares by more than 13 percent. (Photo: T4A) T4A’s report illustrates the punishing effect of such cuts on […]

Transit Riders to Albany: Get to Work on a Real MTA Solution

By Ben Fried | Apr 29, 2009 | No Comments

Photo: Ben Fried. Yesterday’s rally in Union Square drew hundreds of transit riders calling on the State Senate and Albany leaders to enact a long-term solution for the MTA’s enormous funding shortfall. Judging by the cheering sections in the audience, most of the crowd was mobilized by the Facebook group "1,000,000 People Against the NYC […]

Time for Working Families Party to Step Up for Riders, Endorse Bridge Tolls

By Ben Fried | Apr 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

WFP director Dan Cantor (center) at a "Halt the Hike" rally last week. Photo: Working Families Party. Here’s another wake-up call for state legislators dithering over a transit funding package: The sinking economy continues to choke off revenues for New York City’s subways and buses. The MTA finance committee announced this afternoon that the agency’s […]

The Day After

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 27, 2009 | 22 Comments

Well, here we are again. One year after State Assembly Democrats killed New York City’s attempt to fund mass transit and reduce traffic gridlock, sustainable transport advocates find themselves suffering yet another huge defeat in Albany. Fixing Albany requires volunteers dragging themselves out to the Kings Highway Q train platform in the middle of Carl […]

Beyond Ravitch: Still Time for a Bolder Plan

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 10, 2009 | 25 Comments

As Albany lawmakers ponder which of a half-dozen Ravitch plan variations they might support, the possibility looms that no solution may come in time. New Yorkers could see their fares rise 25 percent while service is cut back — a twin catastrophe in this tough economic time. Yet no big new ideas are being advanced […]

Hire a Construction Worker, Fire a Bus Driver?

By John Kaehny | Jan 23, 2009 | 25 Comments

Green-collar jobs are on the line in Barack Obama’s adopted hometown. Photo of CTA bus driver: goatopolis/Flickr It’s stimulus package logic: Lay off a bus driver now and hire a construction worker in a couple of months or a year. Congress and purported urbanist Barack Obama are fiddling with a 1950s-era stimulus package while America’s […]

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