Recent Streetsblog USA posts about MTA

Revealed: State Pols Underfund Transit With Underhanded Move

By Dave Colon | Dec 21, 2022 | No Comments

Stop the steal! New York State has been underfunding the MTA by hundreds of millions of dollars for decades, quietly reclassifying dedicated county taxes as its own contribution to the transit agency's operating budget.

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Opinion: Transit Resiliency Should be More Than a Buzzword

By Kara Gurl | Nov 29, 2022 | No Comments

The 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy brought a renewed focus on New York’s resiliency measures — but as Dave Colon recently pointed out in Streetsblog, we’re not ready for a Sandy sequel.

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OPINION: Congestion Pricing Will Bring Cleaner Air for All

By Renae Reynolds | Sep 15, 2022 | No Comments

The key to ensuring safer, more reliable, efficient, and accessible public transit, as well as cleaner air, less traffic congestion, and safer roads, is through a swift implementation of congestion pricing.

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OPINION: Congestion Pricing Isn't A Cash Grab; It's A Repayment of Debt

By Nicole A. Murray | Sep 7, 2022 | No Comments

It pays to remember who profits as complainants line up on central business district tolling.

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What Congestion Pricing Accomplishes — and What it Doesn’t

By Nicole Gelinas | Aug 15, 2022 | No Comments

Obviously, there are positives, but there are also a lot of potential negatives. Let’s use the federal environmental-assessment process the way it’s meant to be used, and understand the negatives in order to combat them.

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Congestion Pricing Update: New York’s Tolls will Have National Implications

By Dave Colon | Aug 10, 2022 | No Comments

There are seven scenarios in New York's environmental assessment for congestion pricing. How this plays out is crucial to America's effort to rein in traffic and fund transit.

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