Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about MTA

Hylan Blvd SBS Relies More on Fast Payment and Signals, Less on Bus Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Sep 22, 2011 | 8 Comments

When it comes to Staten Island, the Department of Transportation and MTA are considering a different model for Select Bus Service. The service planned for Hylan Boulevard will provide dedicated bus lanes for less of the route than on existing SBS lines, but high-tech features like transit-friendly traffic lights and even a possible pilot of […]

Q-Poll: NYC Residents Want More Funds For MTA By Nearly 2-1 Margin

By Noah Kazis | Aug 12, 2011 | 5 Comments

The idea of increasing state funding for the MTA is popular in New York City, according to a new Quinnipiac poll released yesterday. Looking at the MTA service region — NYC plus its suburbs — more people want to see additional funding going to transit. Statewide, support for increased MTA funding is slightly lower than […]

Cutting “Waste and Inefficiency” Won’t Eliminate the MTA’s Budget Problems

By Noah Kazis | Aug 10, 2011 | 10 Comments

Last week, the city’s Independent Budget Office released a report on the MTA’s revenue structure [PDF] which has been getting a bit of play. At Second Avenue Sagas, Ben Kabak focused on the report’s main thesis: that the volatility of dedicated taxes and fees threatens the financial stability of the transit agency. Steven Higashide of […]

Cuomo Appoints 20-Member Committee to Help Search for New MTA Chief

By Ben Fried | Aug 8, 2011 | 6 Comments

With about 70 days to go until Jay Walder puts in his last day as MTA CEO, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he has assembled a search committee to help pinpoint the right candidate to take over the nation’s largest transit agency. The next MTA chair will inherit an agency in perilous straits, whose finances […]

Who Will Be the Next MTA Chief?

By Noah Kazis | Aug 5, 2011 | 10 Comments

Who’s up for the challenge of managing the nation’s biggest transit system at a time when state government has left it with a pile of debt and two already-scheduled fare hikes? The person who takes over the MTA from Jay Walder after his resignation takes effect October 21 will have the marquee transit job in […]

Guess Who Has a Lot to Lose From an MTA Meltdown: Drivers

By Charles Komanoff | Aug 1, 2011 | 8 Comments

Can you spot the flaw in this excerpt from the New York Times’ Saturday backgrounder on MTA chief Jay Walder’s pending departure for Hong Kong? [T]he future of New York’s cash-poor transit system, depended on by millions of riders a day, has now fallen directly to Mr. Cuomo, who must pick a successor. The passage […]

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