Finally, some good news for New York’s battered and beleaguered transportation network: The City Council has approved congestion pricing. The plan now heads to the state legislature which should heed New York’s home-rule decision. I’ll have more on this and its potential impact on transit later on tonight.
Another financial milestone for the MTA is fast approaching. At 3:30 p.m. this afteroon, the City Council will hold a vote on the revised congestion pricing plan. While, as City Room’s Sewell Chan notes, the State Legislature will ultimately approve or vote down the plan, the Council has to approve the plan before the Legislature [...]
The news just keeps getting worse for the MTA. Seven days after we learned that the MTA will have to indefinitely postpone planned service upgrades, the news out of Albany is rather dire for the financially-strapped organization.
According to reports from the weekend, Gov. David Patterson may be slashing $60 million in transit funds originally [...]
This was not the best week for the MTA:
On Monday, the agency announced that planned service upgrades would be shelved. Coupled with a few other announcements — such as fewer on-time trains — it ended being a pretty bad Monday for the MTA.
On Wednesday, the Straphangers Campaign announced that about half of all subway cars [...]
This is not the world’s most efficient subway system.
In a few short weeks, on April 29, one of the year’s most anticipated video games hits the shelves. That game, as many New Yorkers know, is the latest installment in one of the most polarizing and controversial video games of all time: Grand Theft Auto.
While a [...]
James Gandolfini, the Sopranos mob boss, is moving across the river to play the role of the beleaguered mayor in the upcoming Tony Scott remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. In the original, Lee Wallace can’t handle the pressures of leading the city through yet another crisis. Who knows how Gandolfini, a regular tough [...]
It is a sad thing to sit here yearning for the days of early March. With the future of New York City’s subways laid out to us by MTA CEO and Executive Director Elliot Sander, we were so full of hope and optimism. We were even discussing that famous circumferential subway line as though [...]
The MTA board voted today to approve a 99-year, $1-billion lease for the Hudson Yards land with Tishman Speyer. While the deal still has to clear a few hurdles, the MTA anticipates that this money will, in the words of The Times, “plug a $700 million gap in the authority’s capital budget and catalyze development [...]
Big news for Second Ave. Sagas: I will be appearing on the Brian Lehrer Live show tonight to discuss the MTA and gentrification. The show airs at 7:30 p.m. on CUNY TV. Check it out. [Brian Lehrer Live]
The subways, the Straphangers Campaign would like you to know, are not that clean. While the number shows improvement, only 50 percent of all subway cars are clean, according to the advocacy group’s 2007 Subway Smutz survey. The MTA, meanwhile, counters that 87 percent of all subway cars are clean. Who do you believe?
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