Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about MTA

This will simultaneously get better, and worse, to ride inside the city. Photo: MTA

MTA May Finally Kill Off Atlantic Ticket’s Free Subway and Bus Transfer

By Dave Colon | May 25, 2023 | No Comments

The discount fare that offers $5 commuter rail trips and a free subway or bus transfer for riders going between Atlantic Terminal and LIRR stations in southeast Queens and Brooklyn could be on the way out, a top transit official said this week.

The opposition to congestion pricing boils down to just 5,200 New York City drivers.

Straw Men: The Fight Over Congestion Pricing Comes Down to Just 5,200 NYC Drivers

By Dave Colon | May 22, 2023 | No Comments

A minuscule number of New York City residents commute by car to the tolling zone of Manhattan from homes that are more than one-half mile from high-speed public transit.

Albany’s Fealty to Suburbs Hurts Black, Latino Workers: Report

By Dave Colon | May 19, 2023 | No Comments

The capitulation to the suburbs by the governor and by state legislative leaders means that Black, Hispanic and Asian workers of all income employed by those businesses will shoulder an unequal share of the new tax, according to a new analysis by the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

The B41 in downtown Brooklyn can't use the bus lane thanks to chronic placard abuse, so riders sit in traffic instead. Photo: Ben Fried

Two-Way Busway Proposed For Brooklyn’s Placard-Ridden Livingston St.

By Dave Colon | May 15, 2023 | No Comments

A bus priority project would convert Livingston into a one-way westbound for cars alongside the new two-way busway that serves 50,000 bus riders daily.

It's raining money for lower-income drivers who enter the congestion zone more than 10 times a month.

Get a Load of the Congestion Pricing Exemptions that Some People Want

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | May 12, 2023 | No Comments

Many opponents of congestion pricing offered their select group that is worthy of an exemption from the toll. Here is the full list, annotated by Streetsblog.

MTA Will Offer Congestion Pricing Discounts For Low-Income ‘Frequent Drivers’

By Dave Colon | May 9, 2023 | No Comments

Only about 14 percent of car commuters into Manhattan below 60th Street have incomes that meet the discount threshold vs. 79 percent of lower-income commuters who use transit, so maybe this is not such a big deal.

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