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Key Players Aren’t Rejecting Congestion Pricing Out of Hand This Time (NYT) State Lawmakers Want Cuomo to Can His MTA Extortion Gambit (NYT) Lhota Says a “Freedom Ticket” Pilot Is Coming This Year (AMNY) Attention Straphangers: Don’t Stop Tweeting About Subpar Transit Service (News) Hearing Andy Byford Talk Up Buses (and Bikes) Will Do Your […]

Karen Koslowitz Wants NYC Cyclists to Be Registered and Licensed (Gotham Gazette) More on Yesterday’s Remarkable MTA Board Meeting (NYT, Post, News, NY1, AMNY) Matthiessen Explains How Fix NYC Stacks Up to Move NY (Gotham Gazette) Zack Fink Thinks Bridge Tolls Could Have a Role in Cuomo’s Pricing Plan (SOP) Straphangers Speak With NY1 About the […]

NYPD Confirms Workers Are Bearing the Brunt of de Blasio’s Pointless E-Bike Crackdown (Rag) Cuomo Is Still Playing Games With the Subway (Politico, News, NYT) Will Byford Reform the MTA’s Muddled Performance Metrics? (Voice) American Prospect: Gateway Is Not a “Nice-to-Have Novelty” De Blasio and Other Mayors to Waste Afternoon in DC (NY1) Someone Tell Andrew […]

Andy Byford Impresses With Attentive Performance at First MTA Board Meeting (AMNY, News, Post) Didn’t Take Long for Cuomo and Lhota to Put Byford in an Awkward Position (News 1, 2; AMNY) Yesterday’s Big Subway Disruption Really Was a Con Ed Power Problem (AMNY) NYT: It’s Long Past Time for Congestion Pricing Crain’s: Do Whatever It Takes to […]

Cuomo and MTA Ginned Up Numbers to Pin Blame for Subway Delays on Con Ed (News 1, 2; NYT) Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Mercedes Dearmas, 61, Crossing Adam Clayton Powell at 113th (News, Post) The Friday News Cycle About Congestion Pricing (Politico; NYT 1, 2; CBS2; News; ABC7; WNYC; AP) Cuomo Sounded More Tepid About Charging Private Car Traffic on […]

Cuomo’s Pricing Plan Is the Real Deal (NYT, Politico, News, Post, AMNY) Andrew Lanza Early Frontrunner in the Whining Brigade (SOP) George Haikalis: Route Gateway Through Hoboken and Save $19B (News) De Blasio Ferries Exceed Ridership Expectations, Still < 1 Middling Bus Line (WorkBoat) Electric MTA Buses Debut in Williamsburg (Bklyn Paper) In NY It’s […]