Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ferries

Mayor de Blasio announcing the construction of a new ferry dock on the Lower East Side yesterday. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office

De Blasio Could Help Many More New Yorkers With Bus Upgrades and Bike-Share Expansion Than With Ferry Subsidies

By David Meyer | Mar 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

NYC bus ridership is in free fall, and Mayor de Blasio, who manages the city's streets, is the man who can fix it. Unfortunately, de Blasio's transportation priorities lie elsewhere. You can tell by looking at where the money goes.

Toll reform creates a fairer transportation system. Ferry subsidies do not. Photo: Michael Appelton/Mayoral Photography Office

De Blasio Launches $325 Million Ferry Service While Poor New Yorkers Struggle to Afford MetroCards

By David Meyer | May 1, 2017 | 35 Comments

Yesterday the mayor emphasized that the prices for single ferry rides and monthly passes are equivalent to those of single-ride and monthly MetroCards. But ferry riders hoping to connect to other points in the city will have to pay twice - for the boat ride, and again for the subway or bus. And most stops are in neighborhoods where the annual income is above the citywide average.

RPA: Growing Outer Boroughs Need New Generation of Transit Investment

By Stephen Miller | Feb 11, 2015 | 11 Comments

With the boroughs outside Manhattan adding people and jobs faster than the city core, New York needs to reorient its transit priorities, argues the Regional Plan Association in a new report. The authors warn that increasing travel in the other boroughs will strain the local bus system and lead more people to drive, causing more traffic congestion and […]

Bus Rapid Transit, Not Ferry Subsidies, Would Help Struggling New Yorkers

By Stephen Miller | Feb 3, 2015 | 34 Comments

In today’s State of the City address, Mayor de Blasio returned to his signature campaign issues of affordability and equity. Focusing mainly on housing, the mayor outlined a plan for growth centered around transit-accessible neighborhoods, and he recommitted to building several new Bus Rapid Transit routes. But de Blasio missed the mark with his big new transit initiative […]

Panel: NYC Electeds Need to Get Serious About Funding Infrastructure

By Stephen Miller | Apr 23, 2014 | 4 Comments

This morning, the Association for a Better New York, a business group, hosted a discussion on the city’s infrastructure. The focus was squarely on transportation, and the message wasn’t pretty. Panelists warned of dire consequences if elected officials don’t act on the precarious state of transportation funding. Calling himself “the ghost of infrastructure past,” former traffic commissioner […]

Feds Reject All Three NYC Applications for Latest Round of TIGER Grants

By Stephen Miller | Sep 5, 2013 | 6 Comments

This morning, U.S. DOT announced the winners in the latest round of its highly-competitive TIGER grant program. While upstate New York won grants for two projects — a highway teardown in Rochester and a complete streets project in Olean — New York City missed out, with applications for ferry improvements, a greenway connection in the Bronx, and […]

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