Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

Prendergast’s Objections to Toll Reform Don’t Make Any Sense

By Stephen Miller | Jul 30, 2015 | 30 Comments

On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show this morning, MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast joined his boss Andrew Cuomo in dumping cold water on the Move NY toll reform plan as a way to fund the transit authority’s capital program. Trouble is, his critiques don’t make much sense. Lehrer played a clip of Cuomo arguing against toll reform on […]

Here Are Six Times the MTA Was a State Entity Under Cuomo’s Control

By Stephen Miller | Jul 30, 2015 | 18 Comments

Yesterday on WCNY’s “Capitol Pressroom,” Susan Arbetter hosted Governor Andrew Cuomo for a discussion of the MTA capital program. Lately, the governor has been pushing City Hall to fund a greater share of the authority’s investment plan. Arbetter, pressing the governor, asked a simple question: “Isn’t the MTA a state entity?” “It’s not, actually,” Cuomo replied. “It [covers] a metropolitan downstate […]

Anthony Shorris: City Hall Open to Funding Transit Via Toll Reform

By Stephen Miller | Jul 22, 2015 | 2 Comments

After an Albany legislative session that came and went without any serious effort from Governor Cuomo to address the $14 billion shortfall in the MTA’s next five-year capital program, there are faint stirrings of action. Most intriguing: Yesterday, First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris sent a letter to MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast outlining the city’s […]

Lawmakers Beg Cuomo to Show Some Leadership on MTA Capital Plan Gap

By Stephen Miller | Jun 2, 2015 | 2 Comments

As the end approaches for the Albany legislative session, things are looking bleak for New York City transit riders. With no action from Governor Cuomo to close the $14 billion gap in the MTA capital program, the burden will end up falling on straphangers in the form of greater debt and higher fares. A group […]

Transit Advocates Ask Cuomo to Ride the Subway Like a Real New Yorker

By Stephen Miller | May 1, 2015 | 36 Comments

Transit ridership is soaring, delays are way up, and the MTA has a $14 billion hole in its capital plan. MTA leadership is sounding the alarm, but Albany doesn’t seem to notice. With the clock ticking on the year’s legislative session, transit advocates are asking Governor Andrew Cuomo to hop out of his muscle car and ride […]

GCA Backed Congestion Pricing — Why Not Bridge Toll Reform?

By Stephen Miller | Apr 30, 2015 | 2 Comments

The General Contractors Association of New York, which represents heavy construction contractors, says it wants a funding solution to the $14 billion gap in the MTA’s capital plan — just not the Move NY toll reform plan that’s being shopped around Albany. It’s a shift in tone from the group’s interest when the plan was being developed a few years […]

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