Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

TransitCenter‘s 10-Point Plan for a Healthier MTA Starts With Honesty Cuomo’s Not Coming Clean About His MTA Budget Games (SoP, Politico) These Days It’s News When Transit Runs the Way It Should (News, NYT, AMNY, Gothamist, DNA, Post) Straphangers Know Signs on Train Car Floors Won’t Fix the Subway’s Troubles (Post) Schumer and Booker Press Trump […]

Straphangers Say Subway Delays Are Upending Their Lives (News, Gothamist) TransAlt and Bike NY: Better Bike Infrastructure Can Help NYC Weather Tough Transit Times (News) The MTA Really Comes in Handy for Cuomo’s Budgetary Shell Games (News) Last Week’s Penn Derailment Happened at an Interlocking Everyone Knew Needed to Get Fixed (NYT) Today Marks the […]

MTA Shifts $1.2 Billion Away From New Subway Cars, Toward Cuomo Expansion Projects (News) Hudson Tunnel Construction Cost Estimates Rise to $13 Billion (Politico, NYT, WNYC, Crain’s) Gateway Overseer John Porcari Says It Won’t Get Built Without Funds From Trump and the Feds (News) Meanwhile, Christie’s Been Spending Millions in ARC Funds to Subsidize a Low-Ridership […]

TransitCenter: Cuomo and Lhota Shouldn’t Overlook Potential of MTA Buses Crain’s Op-Ed: NYC Doesn’t Need Albany to Toll Bridges [Paywall] Conflicting Reports on When Gateway EIS Will Be Released (NY1, Gothamist) TransAlt: More Bikeways Needed to Prevent Deaths; de Blasio: No Comment (AMNY) Gothamist Has More on NYPD’s July 4 Bridge Path Shutdowns The Times Explains How […]

Cuomo and State Lawmakers Left NYC in the Lurch, But Uber Got Its Way (NYT) U.S. DOT Cuts Ties With Gateway Corporation (Eno, AMNY, WNYC) Rahm Emanuel Weighs In on MTA Problems and Federal Transit Funding (NYT) Daily News Scoop: Some MTA Officials Take the Subway More Often Than Others Amtrak Will Divert Trains From Penn to […]

State GOP Plans to Wield Subway Dysfunction as a Cudgel Against Cuomo in 2018 (News) Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Cyclist in Bushwick; Witnesses Contradict NYPD Victim-Blaming (Gothamist, DNA) Cabbie Kills 87-Year-Old Man at Cooper Square Sunday Night (News, Post) SUV Driver Rear-Ends Bus on 125th Street — 12 Injured (Gothamist) Driver Speeds Through Central Park, Crashes Into […]