Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

Here’s the Risk to Straphangers of Kicking the Can on the MTA Capital Plan

By Charles Komanoff | Jan 11, 2016 | No Comments

Rumors are swirling that the long-awaited answer to the key question vexing the MTA — how the state’s $8.3 billion share of the unfunded portion of the MTA capital plan will be paid for — is that dreaded four-letter word: D-E-B-T. According to the terms of a deal reached by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio in October, […]

The Looming Transit Breakdown That Threatens America’s Economy

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 16, 2015 | No Comments

While federal transit funding stagnates, the nation’s largest rail and bus systems have been delaying critical maintenance projects. Without sustained efforts to fix infrastructure and vehicles, the effects of deteriorating service in big American cities could ripple across the national economy, according to a new report from the Regional Plan Association [PDF]. RPA focuses on ten of the nation’s largest transit agencies […]

Will Council Members Who Want Transit Improvements Back Toll Reform?

By David Meyer | Nov 13, 2015 | 20 Comments

At yesterday’s City Council transportation committee hearing, chair Ydanis Rodriguez hoped to engage the MTA and DOT concerning areas of the city that need more transit options. But despite being invited, according to Rodriguez, the MTA refused to send anyone. Instead, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg promised to pressure the MTA to invest in transportation projects to improve commuter times between Manhattan and the edges […]

Let This RPA Vid Explain Why We Need More Rail Tubes Under the Hudson

By Brad Aaron | Oct 29, 2015 | No Comments

The Regional Plan Association produced a nice explainer video on why the region needs to build more rail capacity under the Hudson River, the risks facing the existing train tubes, and what will happen if one of them has to be taken offline for repairs before another tunnel gets built. The situation with the tunnels has heightened urgency because New […]

NYC Toll Reform Makes Too Much Sense to Fade Away

By Ben Fried | Oct 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

Don’t count out Move New York just yet. When Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio hashed out their deal to fill the gap in the MTA capital program, it seemed like a window of opportunity was closing on the plan to cut congestion and fund transit by reforming the city’s dysfunctional toll system. The governor would […]

If Cuomo Wants City Funding for the MTA, He’ll Need to Compromise

By Stephen Miller | Oct 6, 2015 | 9 Comments

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s months-long attempt to squeeze money out of City Hall for the MTA appears to be reaching its end game. Cuomo and his people at the MTA — which, despite what the governor says, is a state entity under his control — have been asking Mayor de Blasio for ever-increasing amounts of money to fill the gap in […]

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