Transit Funding
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Happy Birthday, Subway! Challenges and Opportunities as the System Turns 120
New York can’t survive without transit and transit can’t survive without investment.
October 27, 2024
MTA Can’t Borrow Its Way Out Of Hochul’s Capital Plan Gaps: Comptroller
Forcing the MTA to fill its congestion pricing hole with borrowed money could mean a 16-percent fare hike down the line.
October 23, 2024
Stop Making Sense: TWU’s Head-Scratching Opposition to Congestion Pricing Doesn’t Add Up
Thanks in part to union sabotage, New Yorkers are staring into an abyss of impoverished transit.
October 3, 2024
OPINION: Any Money Hochul Finds to ‘Replace’ Congestion Pricing Should Fund Fares and Frequency
The governor's congestion pricing gambit put potential infusions into MTA operations to fund things like fare subsidies and service on the back burner.
October 1, 2024
Derailed? Gov. Hochul May Rip Up MTA Capital Plan
The gridlock governor — who already blew a $15-billion hole in the MTA capital budget — now is suggesting that the next capital plan is too big.
September 30, 2024
New Crisis for Inter-City Customers As Megabus Goes Bust
"Every time a viable option goes away, it hurts the mobility of everyone and drives more people toward cars," said one activist.
September 26, 2024
Hochul’s Congestion Pricing ‘Pause’ Tanked Her Polling, Hurt the MTA and Did Zilch for Democrats
Gridlock Gov. Kathy Hochul saw zero political benefit from nixing congestion pricing's June 30 launch date, according to a new poll.
September 20, 2024
Hamstrung! Congestion Pricing ‘Pause’ Screws Over the Next MTA Capital Plan: Report
Gov. Hochul’s congestion pricing pause will eat into the MTA’s execution of its next capital plan and push the start of work on that plan back by years, a new report argues.
September 16, 2024
Comptroller: Thanks to Hochul’s Congestion Pricing ‘Pause,’ MTA Needs Up to $107B For Repairs
The gridlock governor is saddling the MTA with over $100 billion in capital needs, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says.
September 12, 2024
Opinion: Does Gov. Hochul Even Know What a ‘Hard-Working’ New Yorker Is?
Standing up for drivers in the one American region with viable, convenient transit is as weird as Donald Trump and JD Vance.
September 5, 2024
