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Cuomo’s Big Subway Reveal: Countdown Clocks, Wi-Fi, Contactless Fares (Politico, WNYC, NY1) Ben Kabak: That’s It? The Governor Has an Expensive Transportation Wishlist (NYT) And No Way to Pay For It (NYSlant) Can the Port Authority Afford Its Share of Cuomo’s Penn Station Overhaul? (WSJ) Drivers Hit and Kill Man in Brownsville, One Flees Scene (Post) Advocates to […]

Turning SUV Driver Kills Andrea Kremen, 68, on UES; “No Criminality Suspected” (News, WPIX) Cuomo’s Penn Station: Advo Concerns Muted (Crain’s); Dwyer: Could Happen; WNYC Posts Timeline Pouring Cash Into the Moribund Convention Business Is the Quintessential Cuomo Big Idea (NYT, Politico) Politico Says Master Road-Builder Cuomo Is Shaping Up as a Climate Change Hero Port Authority Reform Goes Nowhere in NJ State Legislature (Politico) WSJ: […]

Cuomo’s Penn Station Announcement Underwhelms, Mostly (2AS, WNYC, NYT, Politico, WSJ) Upstate Highway Program Would Take Five Years; No Increase in TZB Tolls (NYT) Has Cuomo Read “The Power Broker” All the Way to the End? (@2AvSagas) Ritchie Torres Wants to Make Community Boards Representative of Communities (Gazette) Rodriguez, Levine, and Andy Cohen See Demand for Hudson River Ferries (DNA, News) […]

WSJ: Cuomo Has a Plan to “Overhaul” Penn Station Tri-State: New York Needs a Cohesive Vision for Transportation Investment, Not a Grab Bag More on Cuomo’s LI Transpo Event: NYT, WNYC, 2AS; LI Republicans Unimpressed (Newsday) The Deterioration of Subway Service Continues Apace (Gothamist) De Blasio Signs Law to Increase Civil Penalties for Hit-and-Run Drivers (@JimmyVanBramer) Rafael Salamanca and George […]

Cabbie’s Failure to Brake Unattended Vehicle in Midtown Kills 22-Year-Old Woman (Post, News) Broken Rail Caused Massive Delays on 7 Train During the Monday Morning Commute (DNA) As of This Week, Many More New Yorkers Can Get the Transit Commuter Tax Benefit (NY1) Amtrak Activates Positive Train Control Between NYC and Philly (WNYC) DOT Cuts Ribbon on Safety Improvements […]

230 People Were Killed in Traffic in NYC Last Year — a New Low (NYT) Few Drivers Who Injure or Kill Pedestrians and Cyclists Face Right of Way Charges (DNA) The Port Authority Has No Idea What to Do About Its Aging Midtown Bus Terminal (Politico) WSJ Surveys the State of the NYC Region’s Transportation Mega-Projects Citi Bike […]