Dave Colon
Email Dave Colon at dcolon@streetsblog.org
Recent Posts
MTA Boss: ‘Fingers Crossed’ Feds Will Soon Greenlight Congestion Pricing
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Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, Janno?
Analysis: Hochul Turns Her Back on Transit Riders With Her MTA Budget
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Gov. Hochul's budget not only asks city residents to cover the largest chunk of the MTA's budget gap, but does so in part by continuing long-running practices that essentially under-fund the MTA by millions of dollars each year.
MTA Pushes Congestion Pricing Back to Second Quarter of 2024
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The MTA quietly pushed back its implementation of congestion pricing by another few months, a move that the agency said would cost it quarter of a billion dollars in expected revenue in 2024.
Independent Budget Office: Fare-Free Buses Would Cost $652M
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The city's independent budget wonks have entered the free buses fray with an analysis of their very own — estimating the cost of eliminating bus fares to be lower than either supporters or skeptics of the proposal have suggested.
Boogie Up: Bronx Bus Speeds And Ridership Jump After Network Redesign
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Bronx buses moved faster — and increased ridership — after the MTA's route redesign, even as average bus speeds remained flat citywide.
MTA’s All-Door Boarding Pilot Still Nixed For Some Reason
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"[MTA leadership] is stuck, and because the policies aren't catching up with the reality and what's best, in a sense, they're choking the system," says a transit union boss.
Adams To Albany: Someone Fund The MTA; Albany To Adams: Someone Fund The MTA
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The fight to fill the MTA's fiscal hole is entering the dreaded Punt Zone, where elected officials from the governor and the State Legislature to the mayor all unite to say someone else has got to solve their problem.
V-DAY SPECIAL: Bigger Cargo Bikes and Last-Mile Warehouse Regulation is a Match Made In Heaven
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A pair of bills in Albany tackle each issue separately — but are a match made in heaven, according to advocates and insiders.
Big Catch: MTA Nabs Almost $1M from Toll Evaders in One Day
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The MTA announced confiscated cars belonging to 36 "persistent" toll scofflaws at its bridges and tunnels on Wednesday, including a whopping 28 at the Whitestone Bridge alone.
ON THEIR MARKS: Legislators Demand More from Hochul’s MTA Budget Proposal
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On your mark, get set, go ... tell the governor to do better.
Gov. Hochul Fills Cash-Strapped MTA’s Fiscal Hole … With Casino Money
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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.
MTA Boss: City Must Meet Its ‘Commitment’ to Bus Lanes This Year
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A promise made has to be a promise kept.