Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

Let This RPA Vid Explain Why We Need More Rail Tubes Under the Hudson

By Brad Aaron | Oct 29, 2015 | No Comments

The Regional Plan Association produced a nice explainer video on why the region needs to build more rail capacity under the Hudson River, the risks facing the existing train tubes, and what will happen if one of them has to be taken offline for repairs before another tunnel gets built. The situation with the tunnels has heightened urgency because New […]

NYC Toll Reform Makes Too Much Sense to Fade Away

By Ben Fried | Oct 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

Don’t count out Move New York just yet. When Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio hashed out their deal to fill the gap in the MTA capital program, it seemed like a window of opportunity was closing on the plan to cut congestion and fund transit by reforming the city’s dysfunctional toll system. The governor would […]

If Cuomo Wants City Funding for the MTA, He’ll Need to Compromise

By Stephen Miller | Oct 6, 2015 | 9 Comments

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s months-long attempt to squeeze money out of City Hall for the MTA appears to be reaching its end game. Cuomo and his people at the MTA — which, despite what the governor says, is a state entity under his control — have been asking Mayor de Blasio for ever-increasing amounts of money to fill the gap in […]

Bronx High Schoolers Explain How MTA Funding Works

By Stephen Miller | Sep 23, 2015 | 1 Comment

Who’s in charge of how much a MetroCard swipe costs? To most New York City teenagers, it’s a mystery. But not to a group of 16 Bronx high school students. Monday night, the students presented a 12-minute video they made during a summer course with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). It explains everything from who appoints the MTA board to the size of […]

Don’t Believe Team Cuomo’s Spin on the MTA “Lockbox”

By Ben Fried | Sep 18, 2015 | 10 Comments

This is rich. When Mayor Bill de Blasio told the Daily News he’s wary of upping the city’s contribution to the MTA capital program because Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly raided dedicated transit funds, MTA Chair Tom Prendergast said don’t worry, you can trust the governor: “This is nothing more than rhetoric from a mayor who refuses to […]

Governors Want Feds to Pay for Half of Hudson Tunnel; They’ll Split the Rest

By Stephen Miller | Sep 15, 2015 | 3 Comments

Governors Chris Christie of New Jersey and Andrew Cuomo of New York sent a letter to President Barack Obama today with an offer: If the federal government picks up half the tab of building a new $20 billion Hudson River rail tunnel, the two states will split the rest [PDF]. It’s a step forward in […]

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