Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

What Andrew Cuomo Could Learn About Transit From Deval Patrick

By Stephen Miller | Feb 27, 2013 | 3 Comments

As New Yorkers wait to find out if Governor Cuomo is even thinking about finding someone to chair the MTA, his lack of attention to transit stands in stark contrast to another northeastern governor — one who in the past six months not only named a new transit head, but also released a plan to fund […]

At Transit Forum, Albanese, Allon, and Carrión Support Rational Tolls

By Stephen Miller | Feb 25, 2013 | 5 Comments

Friday’s transit forum hosted by Transit Workers Union Local 100 and a coalition of rider advocacy groups offered an opportunity for a more more detailed discussion of transit policy than this year’s mayoral race has seen so far. While the candidates offered few specifics about how they would improve transit for the millions of New Yorkers who depend on […]

TSTC: Cuomo Budget Would Raid $20 Million From the MTA

By Ben Fried | Feb 6, 2013 | 6 Comments

If you thought Albany had gotten over the habit of raiding the MTA for cash, think again. Nadine Lemmon at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign reports that there’s a $20 million transit raid lurking in Governor Cuomo’s 2013 executive budget: This $20 million diversion of funds comes from a pot of money that is statutorily dedicated […]

Ed Koch, 1973: The Bicycle “Must Be Included” in NYC Transpo System

By Ben Fried | Feb 1, 2013 | 16 Comments

Thanks to reader Peter Frishauf for passing on this 1973 constituent letter he received from Ed Koch, who represented New York’s 18th Congressional District at the time. Forty years ago, Koch was putting out a more progressive message on bike policy than what we heard in 2011 from another U.S. Representative who had his eye […]

Will Massachusetts Tax Parking Lots to Fund Transit?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 11, 2013 | No Comments

Here’s a transportation funding idea that aligns incentives nicely: taxing parking lots to pay for transit. That’s what one former high-ranking state official is proposing for Massachusetts, ahead of a big announcement by the state Department of Transportation. Earlier this week Governing Magazine looked at the parking lot tax plan, part of a series of […]

Jim Brennan Reintroduces $4.5 Billion Bond Measure for Transit and Roads

By Stephen Miller | Dec 19, 2012 | 4 Comments

When New Yorkers go to the polls less than a year from now, they’ll definitely be voting for a new mayor, and they might also be voting for billions in state-backed transportation funding, if a measure put forward by Assembly Member James Brennan clears Albany. Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat representing Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and […]

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