Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about MTA

Transit Advocates Ask Cuomo to Ride the Subway Like a Real New Yorker

By Stephen Miller | May 1, 2015 | 36 Comments

Transit ridership is soaring, delays are way up, and the MTA has a $14 billion hole in its capital plan. MTA leadership is sounding the alarm, but Albany doesn’t seem to notice. With the clock ticking on the year’s legislative session, transit advocates are asking Governor Andrew Cuomo to hop out of his muscle car and ride […]

De Blasio Deputy Anthony Shorris Ducks Questions on MTA Funding

By Stephen Miller | Apr 24, 2015 | 8 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s One New York plan, focused on the intersection of income inequality and the environment, doesn’t hesitate to make big recommendations to the MTA, like a new subway line. To pay for those plans, de Blasio will need Governor Cuomo and the state legislature to take action, but the mayor isn’t putting forward his own ideas […]

A Bus Design Flaw Is No Reason to Gut the Right of Way Law

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2015 | 25 Comments

As part of its campaign to make it legal for bus drivers to injure and kill people, the Transport Workers Union says flawed bus design is to blame for bus drivers hitting pedestrians while turning. According to WABC, the TWU claims “half of all recent bus accidents” in NYC and nationwide occurred because drivers were prevented from seeing […]

As Subway Trips Climb, MTA Bus Ridership Continues to Stagnate

By Stephen Miller | Apr 23, 2015 | 19 Comments

While subway ridership hit a 65-year high last year, the story for surface transit in NYC is different. Bus ridership has yet to recover from a major round of service cuts in 2010, and in 2014 it lost some ground, according to new stats from the MTA. After the MetroCard boom in the late 1990s, bus ridership has dropped 10 percent since […]

Subway Ridership Hits 65-Year High. Does Cuomo Care?

By Stephen Miller | Apr 20, 2015 | 9 Comments

Subway ridership hit a 65-year high in 2014, serving 1.75 billion trips last year, the most since the New York City Transit Authority was formed in 1953. That’s an increase of 2.6 percent over 2013 and 12 percent since 2007, according to the MTA. The subway now serves 5.6 million passenger trips on an average weekday, and 6 million on an […]

DOT Scraps Bus Lanes in Kew Gardens Hills for Flushing-Jamaica SBS

By Stephen Miller | Apr 16, 2015 | 29 Comments

This afternoon, the City Council overwhelmingly passed a bill that requires DOT to work with the MTA on a citywide Bus Rapid Transit plan to be updated every two years. The vote came a day after DOT told bus lane opponents in eastern Queens that it will water down a Select Bus Service proposal in their neighborhood. In many ways, the new bill codifies much […]

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