Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Subways

Fare Hike 2014: Without New MTA Revenue, $137 Monthly Pass Could Happen

By Noah Kazis | Apr 7, 2011 | 53 Comments

With each passing month, the MTA comes closer to the day of reckoning on its unfunded capital plan — the maintenance work that keeps trains and buses running and the expansion projects that provide more access to the system. While the first two years of the 2010-2014 capital budget were funded, there is a $10 […]

Off-Peak Discounts for NYC Transit: An Intriguing Idea

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 22, 2009 | 24 Comments

Photo: cunningsue/Flickr Discounting off-peak transit service could be a boon to New York City’s transportation and quality of life, so long as revenues can be found to make up for the likely farebox shortfall. MTA chief Jay Walder floated the idea of off-peak discounts in an interview in today’s New York Times. While Walder didn’t […]

What If Everyone Drove to Work?

By Brad Aaron | Aug 10, 2009 | 35 Comments

Amount of space that would be needed for cars if subway-riding New Yorkers thought like, say, a certain assemblyman from Westchester. Sure, knocking the MTA is a favorite local past time, particularly for the politicians and press who are practically guaranteed a "Hallelujah!" chorus for every barb (today’s scandal: fat cat transit workers poised to […]

Second Avenue Subway Keeps on Slipping Into the Future

By Ben Fried | Jul 21, 2009 | 29 Comments

Why wait? The optimal BRT configuration on First and Second Avenues would convert multiple traffic lanes to physically separated busways. Following another revision to the Second Avenue Subway construction timetable, the first phase of the mega-project remains, as ever, about seven or eight years away from completion. Pete Donohue reports in the Daily News: The […]

Bloomberg Says Bikes Don’t Belong on the Subway

By Brad Aaron | Mar 20, 2009 | 71 Comments

Photo: AP via New York Times How green is our mayor? Fielding a question on his weekly radio show about using the city’s underground tunnels to move freight, Michael Bloomberg this morning went off on cyclists who bring their bikes on board the subway. City Room has the quote: There are messengers who do it. […]

Will the Transit-Riding Public Get a Fair Shake?

By Ben Fried | Dec 19, 2008 | 19 Comments

Whatever your stance on the Ravitch Commission’s MTA rescue plan, the broad inequities of allowing New York transit service to deteriorate while fares rise 23 percent are stunning. The doomsday budget passed earlier this week would affect vastly more New Yorkers than bridge tolls or congestion pricing, burdening those who can least afford the added […]

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