Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about MTA

Fair Tolls: Fixing NYC’s Gridlock and Transit Shortfall in One Fell Swoop

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 7, 2014 | 61 Comments

When Governor Nelson Rockefeller merged New York’s commuter rail lines, the NYC Transit Authority, and Robert Moses’s Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority to form the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968, he had several motives. The new agency consolidated political power, made more efficient use of regional infrastructure, and devoted surplus bridge and tunnel toll revenues […]

MTA: We’re Not Counting on Albany to Help Pay for Capital Program

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2014 | 9 Comments

The City Council transportation committee today passed bills to lower the city’s speed limit and give hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers a transit-related tax benefit. But most of this afternoon’s hearing was dedicated to the next MTA capital plan. Here are the highlights. In a joint vote, the committee unanimously approved a bill to […]

Eyes on the Street: DOT Breaks Out the Terracotta for Third Ave Bus Lane

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2014 | 7 Comments

Work is underway on updates to the Third Avenue bus lane. Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson and reader David Dartley tweeted these shots of what will eventually be an offset lane from 36th to 55th Street, a configuration designed to speed bus travel by shifting parking and loading to the curb [PDF]. The Third Avenue bus lane dates […]

No Charges for Bus Driver Who Killed Pedestrian Jennifer White-Estick

By Brad Aaron | Sep 29, 2014 | 12 Comments

Police filed no charges against the MTA bus driver who killed a pedestrian in Bedford-Stuyvesant two weeks ago. Instead, NYPD and the tabloids put the victim on trial. At around 1:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, September 17, Jennifer White-Estick was run over while trying to retrieve her cell phone from underneath a B44 bus […]

Where Is Andrew Cuomo’s Climate Plan?

By Ben Fried | Sep 24, 2014 | 12 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio was one of the estimated 400,000 people marching in Manhattan Sunday to urge world leaders to avert catastrophic climate change before it’s too late. And he backed it up by having his administration commit to reducing New York City’s carbon emissions 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. Andrew Cuomo, meanwhile, […]

On Webster Avenue SBS, Buses Run 20% Faster and More People Are Riding

By Stephen Miller | Sep 12, 2014 | 1 Comment

Last June, DOT and the MTA cut the ribbon for Select Bus Service along Webster Avenue in the Bronx. Now the agencies have released a status report showing the impact of the 5.4-mile, $9 million project [PDF]. The bottom line for bus riders is that, as on other SBS lines, trips are faster and more […]

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