Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Fare Hikes

IBO: MTA Fares on Pace to Rise 50 Percent Over Next Decade

By Stephen Miller | Jul 30, 2013 | 2 Comments

The 2009 MTA funding package passed by Albany included a plan to increase fares and tolls every other year. The most recent of those fare hikes, implemented in March, increased fares 8.4 percent, with the MTA anticipating another increase in 2015. If this pattern continued for the next decade, fares would rise 50 percent, to […]

Instead of More Fare Hikes, How About Bridge Tolls That Make Sense?

By Ben Fried | Oct 15, 2012 | 16 Comments

Since the beginning of 2008 — right around the time that Albany legislators failed to enact congestion pricing — NYC subway and bus fares have been hiked three times. Now the fourth fare hike in five years is on the horizon, and with Albany lawmakers sitting on their hands as MTA revenues fail to keep […]

Straphangers Will Be Asked to Shoulder MTA’s Growing Debt and Labor Costs

By Stephen Miller | Oct 3, 2012 | No Comments

A new report [PDF] from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says that the MTA budget picture is slowly improving as tax collections and ridership increase with a recovering economy, but that won’t protect straphangers from big fare hikes. Revenues from the Payroll Mobility Tax and the more volatile tax on real estate transactions are […]

Amid Christie and Cuomo Raids, Port Authority Plans Huge Fare and Toll Hike

By Noah Kazis | Aug 5, 2011 | 6 Comments

Crossing the Hudson River will get much more expensive under a proposed Port Authority plan to sharply increase tolls and fares on its four bridges, two tunnels and the PATH train. The increases are a result of the poor economy, the costs of rebuilding after the attacks of September 11, and the expensive repairs needed […]

Without New MTA Funds, Transit Riders May Face Return of 70s-Era Disrepair

By Noah Kazis | Apr 14, 2011 | 13 Comments

Last week we wrote about how the looming $10 billion deficit in the MTA’s capital plan could lead to a $3.00 fare and $137 monthly pass within three years. That’s not the only way the transit authority could decide to respond to a lack of funding, however. At the other end of the spectrum from […]

Fare Hike 2014: Without New MTA Revenue, $137 Monthly Pass Could Happen

By Noah Kazis | Apr 7, 2011 | 53 Comments

With each passing month, the MTA comes closer to the day of reckoning on its unfunded capital plan — the maintenance work that keeps trains and buses running and the expansion projects that provide more access to the system. While the first two years of the 2010-2014 capital budget were funded, there is a $10 […]

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