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NYC Scraps Airport Monorail for Thrilling New Tech — The Bus!
The decision comes 17 months after NYS Gov. Kathy Hochul formed an expert panel to explore alternatives to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $2-billion wrong-way AirTrain that no one wanted.
March 14, 2023
EXCLU: Many MTA Board Members Barely Use Their Free MetroCards
Whatever happened to first-hand knowledge?
March 14, 2023
Gov. Hochul Fills Cash-Strapped MTA’s Fiscal Hole … With Casino Money
It's a story that will likely be repeated all over the country as cash-strapped transit systems have to figure out what to do as federal Covid relief money dries up ... and riders have not fully returned.
February 3, 2023
Revealed: State Pols Underfund Transit With Underhanded Move
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.
December 21, 2022
Opinion: Resiliency is Not Just Something We Should Just Talk About
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.
November 29, 2022
OPINION: Congestion Pricing Will Bring Cleaner Air for All
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.
September 15, 2022
OPINION: The Real ‘Cash Grab’ Isn’t Congestion Pricing — It’s Car Culture
It pays to remember who profits as complainants line up on central business district tolling.
September 7, 2022
POINT: What Congestion Pricing Accomplishes — and What it Doesn’t
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.
August 15, 2022
Congestion Pricing Update: New York’s Tolls will Have National Implications
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.
August 10, 2022
Congestion Pricing Takes a Step Forward … But Also Gets Pushed Back Another Month
New York's transit agency is slowly moving ahead with a toll plan that could change life in every city in America.
July 28, 2022
