Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

Independent Watchdogs on Cuomo’s MTA Budget: Show Us the Money

By David Meyer | Mar 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

Add the Independent Budget Office to the transit advocates and New York City electeds who aren’t buying Governor Andrew Cuomo’s claim that the state has met its commitment to fund the MTA. The IBO sums up the reasons not to take Cuomo at his word in a short brief released this week. In October, Cuomo agreed that the state would contribute $8.3 billion […]

36 Assembly Members to Cuomo: Stop Playing Games and Fund the MTA

By David Meyer | Feb 23, 2016 | 7 Comments

Andrew Cuomo wants New Yorkers to think he’s taken care of the multi-billion dollar funding shortfall for the MTA capital program, even though his new budget allocates no new funds for the MTA. Well, 36 members of the Assembly aren’t buying it. In a letter to Cuomo, Brooklyn Assembly Member Jim Brennan called on the governor to commit $1.825 billion […]

On Transit Funding, Emperor Cuomo Has No Clothes

By David Meyer | Jan 26, 2016 | 10 Comments

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget includes no new funds for the MTA capital program — a brazen departure from the funding pledge Cuomo made just a few months ago. Transit advocates laid out the broken promises at a press conference in Brooklyn this morning. Back in October, Cuomo reached an agreement with Mayor de Blasio that the […]

Here’s the Risk to Straphangers of Kicking the Can on the MTA Capital Plan

By Charles Komanoff | Jan 11, 2016 | No Comments

Rumors are swirling that the long-awaited answer to the key question vexing the MTA — how the state’s $8.3 billion share of the unfunded portion of the MTA capital plan will be paid for — is that dreaded four-letter word: D-E-B-T. According to the terms of a deal reached by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio in October, […]

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The Looming Transit Breakdown That Threatens America’s Economy

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 16, 2015 | No Comments

While federal transit funding stagnates, the nation’s largest rail and bus systems have been delaying critical maintenance projects. Without sustained efforts to fix infrastructure and vehicles, the effects of deteriorating service in big American cities could ripple across the national economy, according to a new report from the Regional Plan Association [PDF]. RPA focuses on ten of the nation’s largest transit agencies […]

Will Council Members Who Want Transit Improvements Back Toll Reform?

By David Meyer | Nov 13, 2015 | 20 Comments

At yesterday’s City Council transportation committee hearing, chair Ydanis Rodriguez hoped to engage the MTA and DOT concerning areas of the city that need more transit options. But despite being invited, according to Rodriguez, the MTA refused to send anyone. Instead, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg promised to pressure the MTA to invest in transportation projects to improve commuter times between Manhattan and the edges […]

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