Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about MTA

Jim Brennan’s Transpo $ Plan: Gas Tax, Income Tax, and Forced City Funding

By Stephen Miller | Apr 10, 2015 | 10 Comments

A bill from Assembly Member Jim Brennan, who chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, would create a transportation finance authority to collect new taxes and help fund the MTA as well as roads, bridges, and transit statewide. It’s the first major transportation funding proposal to come out of Albany this year. “Time is growing […]

The Times Fails to Comprehend the Nature of the MTA Funding Gap

By Ben Fried | Apr 10, 2015 | 11 Comments

New York politicos couldn’t have asked for a better deflection of their own responsibility to keep our transit system running than this piece served up yesterday by Times opinion writer Eleanor Randolph: New Yorkers struggle daily on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s subways, trains and buses. They now collect horror stories about long delays and missed […]

Bus Lanes Coming to 125th Street in West Harlem This Summer

By Stephen Miller | Apr 3, 2015 | 15 Comments

Bus riders may not be stuck in crosstown traffic on 125th Street much longer. DOT plans to extend bus lanes from Lenox Avenue to Morningside Avenue this summer [PDF]. The news came last night at a meeting of the Community Board 9 transportation committee. “As far as CB 9 is concerned,” said board chair Rev. Georgette Morgan-Thomas, “I didn’t hear anything that […]

Powerful Driver Training Video Adopted by TLC, MTA, and NYC DOT

By Brad Aaron and Stephen Miller | Apr 1, 2015 | 7 Comments

A new video from the Taxi and Limousine Commission and Families For Safe Streets is now required viewing for drivers in training programs at TLC, DOT, and the MTA. In the 15-minute video, “Drive Like Your Family Lives Here,” people talk about losing loved ones to traffic violence. The video features interviews with family members of Allison Liao, Renee […]

MTA Refuses to Test Simple Bus Design Fix That Could Save Lives

By Stephen Miller | Mar 12, 2015 | 9 Comments

Council Member Antonio Reynoso has introduced a resolution calling on the MTA to install rear wheel side guards, which keep pedestrians and cyclists from being crushed beneath the wheels of a bus. The equipment is already used on buses in cities across the country, but the MTA says it’s not interested in installing sideguards on […]

MTA Tests Bike Racks on Bus Across Verrazano

By Stephen Miller | Mar 10, 2015 | 19 Comments

An anonymously-sourced New York Post story yesterday might leave readers with the impression that new bike racks on the front of Staten Island buses will lead to late trips and a liability nightmare for the MTA. The MTA, however, says it’s still studying the racks — a tried-and-true amenity in every other big American city […]

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