Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

City Council: Drivers With Free On-Street Parking Have Suffered Enough

By Stephen Miller | Jun 30, 2014 | 15 Comments

It may be the Vision Zero era, but some things never change. If you’re looking for cost-free, consequence-free storage of your private automobile in public space, the City Council still has your back. The bill under consideration today by the City Council’s transportation committee, to nibble away at alternate side parking restrictions, may not be […]

Why the Senate Transportation Bill Will Devastate Transit

By Tanya Snyder | May 22, 2014 | No Comments

Transit officials lined up today to make clear that holding transit spending at current levels — as the Senate’s transportation authorization bill does — will put transit systems at risk of falling further into dangerous disrepair. The backlog for transit maintenance and replacement stands “conservatively” at $86 billion, according to the Federal Transit Administration. That […]

Questions Linger Over Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Transit Plans

By Stephen Miller | Apr 30, 2014 | 5 Comments

On Monday, Governor Cuomo announced that the state would provide $20 million for transit service across the new Tappan Zee Bridge, and is applying for a federal grant as well. While this first step is welcome news, there are still more questions than answers about what this money will pay for and how the rest of […]

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 […]

No, the MTA Can’t Afford Cuomo’s Transit Raids

By John Petro | Apr 14, 2014 | No Comments

I think most transit riders would laugh — cynically — at the idea that the MTA has more than enough funds to meet its needs. But this is exactly what the MTA’s chairman Tom Prendergast said when he learned that the state would be diverting $30 million from the MTA’s funding stream to balance the […]

Instead of Reforming NYC Tolls, Ruben Diaz, Jr. Proposes Soaking the Bronx

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2014 | 19 Comments

Like the Tea Party adherents who are always going to equate walkability and sustainable transportation with a global UN conspiracy, some New York City electeds are always going to call road pricing “regressive” no matter how much the evidence suggests otherwise. But Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. really ought to know better. Diaz has […]

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