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Pressure Mounts on ‘Incompetent’ Mayor Adams To Build Some Freakin’ Bus Lanes
Imagine how bad it's gotten when a TV reporter wonders aloud why Mayor Adams is so bad at buses.
February 9, 2024
Big F’n (B, D And M’n) Deal: Congestion Pricing Lawsuits Threaten More MTA Signal Progress
Signal upgrades key to improving subway service hang in the balance as lawsuits threaten a key source of MTA funding.
February 1, 2024
Top New Jersey Congestion Pricing Foe Hasn’t Done His Homework
Josh Gottheimer "ran the numbers" to reveal the MTA will raise over $3 billion annually from congestion pricing — but his math is way off.
January 11, 2024
MTA Boss: We’ll Win All Those Congestion Pricing Lawsuits
The UFT's anti-transit effort to kill congestion pricing on behalf of "like two dozen people" will hurt students most, Lieber said.
January 8, 2024
Teachers Union Prez: You Can’t Expect My Members To Ride The Train Or Bus!
Teachers don't like using transit, and have been enabled to feel that way thanks to the parking placards they were gifted in the de Blasio era.
January 4, 2024
They’re Driving To America: Neil Diamond Musical’s Anti-Congestion Pricing Stunt Irks New Yorkers
It's a song sung blue: A Broadway producer is so opposed to congestion pricing that he'll refund the still-non-existent toll to see his show.
December 27, 2023
MTA: N.J. Slept Through the Entire Congestion Pricing Environmental Review
"New Jersey’s claim that it was deprived of adequate opportunities to consult on the project is revisionist history," the MTA's attorneys wrote.
December 19, 2023
City Adds Another Moving Lane to Appease Car Drivers Near Williamsburg Bridge
Induced demand isn't just a theory — it's apparently a policy of the city Department of Transportation.
December 11, 2023
Dynamic! MTA Could Hike Congestion Pricing Toll 25% on Gridlock Alert Days
The MTA said it had that power, and modeled it in its environmental assessment (see footnote 2 below), but no one ever reported it, until Wednesday.
December 6, 2023
Reporter’s Notebook: Will Eric Adams Ever Publicly Embrace Congestion Pricing?
The governor, the head of the MTA and the city's leading transit thinkers all celebrated congestion pricing on Tuesday as an historic moment while Mayor Adams spent Tuesday failing to live up to it.
December 6, 2023
