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What Happened to Cuomo’s Emergency MTA Shake-Up Plans? (Politico) Meet the Upstate Lawmakers Who Help Decide Whether the Subway Gets Funded (NYT) IBO: City Employees Alone Have Lost 17K Hours of Work to Transit Delays in 2017 (News, NY1) Try Not to Clench Your Jaw as Bill de Blasio Touts Ferries as Fix for Crowded Trains […]

You Can Totally Trust Chris Christie When He Says NJ Transit’s Not a Patronage Mill (Politico) MTA Operations Execs Scrambling as Directives Come Down From Lhota (News) “Dockless” Bike-Share — the Times Is on It Truck Driver Strikes and Kills Man on Clearview Expressway (QNS, TL) EDC Launches Northwest Queens-to-Manhattan Ferry Route (NYT, AMNY) De Blasio Still […]

NJ Transit Overrun By Patronage, Corruption, and Incompetence, Says Fired Agency Watchdog (Politico) Queens Pols: In NYC, Only Transit Riders, Not Drivers, Should Pay for All Their Trips (News, AMNY) It’s Easier to Do Congestion Pricing With Cashless Tolling, Which Is the New Normal in NYC (NYT) Lewis Lehe Has the Authoritative Account of How […]

Bank Settlements Bailed Out Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Bridge Vanity Project (News, WSJ, Politico) Related: Cuomo Drove Over the Tappan Zee All the Way Back to the 1950s (SoP) Edouard Menuau, 59, Dies From Injuries Inflicted By Cabbie on Canal Street; NYPD Blames Victim (DNA) Daily News Goes Off on de Blasio for Dismissing Toll Reform; […]

MTA Error Caused System-Wide Subway Delays Wednesday (NYT, Gothamist, AMNY, News) De Blasio Flogs Millionaire’s Tax and Panders to Motorists in Primary Debate (Politico, WNYC) Matthiessen Talks Toll Reform on WNYC; Post Finds a Way to Make Pricing Bad for Transit Riverdale Press Interviews Jeffrey Dinowitz About His Transportation Tax Proposal The Times Censures Retiring Dem […]

Cuomo Isn’t Going to Support de Blasio’s Millionaire’s Tax to Fund the Subway (Politico) … But He Hasn’t Released a Congestion Pricing Plan, Either (AMNY) With NYC Transit in Crisis, the Governor Obsesses Over Upstate Toll Booths (Politico) Will Lhota Implement Better Subway Performance Metrics? (WNYC) Riders Talk to WNYC and NY1 About Bus Service; More […]