Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

Just a Reminder: Cuomo Can Take Charge of the MTA Whenever He Wants

By Stephen Miller | Jan 29, 2015 | 11 Comments

At approximately 5 p.m. Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he had ordered the complete closure of New York City’s bus and subway systems in the face of an oncoming snowstorm. If nothing else, it was a stark reminder that the transit system is not a political orphan. The MTA is, in fact, Cuomo’s agency. […]

Cuomo to Spend Lion’s Share of NY Bank Settlement Windfall on Highways

By Stephen Miller | Jan 21, 2015 | 7 Comments

Here’s where Cuomo plans to spend settlement $$. Why not subways/buses? @grussian pic.twitter.com/n27LdWorWT — Josh Robin (@joshrobin) January 21, 2015 One of the looming questions as Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled his budget agenda over the past few days has been how he’ll divvy up the $5.4 billion windfall the state has reaped […]

Cuomo’s Transpo Vision: Huge Garages, Cheap Roads, Lots More MTA Debt

By Stephen Miller | Jan 20, 2015 | 14 Comments

A day before his big statewide policy address, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out his transportation and infrastructure agenda today at a Midtown breakfast hosted by the Association for a Better New York, a business group. This was not the speech where the governor finally laid out his plan to prevent runaway MTA debt, fix the traffic […]

Ex-MTA Chiefs: Fund the Capital Plan, Don’t Gamble With the Transit System

By Stephen Miller | Jan 13, 2015 | 21 Comments

With the election over and Albany in session, the time for tiptoeing around the $15.2 billion gap in the MTA’s next five-year capital program is over. Today, three former MTA chiefs lined up to say that, one way or another, the plan must be fully funded. “The governor, the legislature, and the mayor must do the […]

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Will Maryland Gov-Elect Larry Hogan Kill the Red and Purple Lines?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 7, 2015 | No Comments

Seeing shovel-ready transit projects destroyed by petty politics has been all too common the last few years (see: Scott Walker and Wisconsin high-speed rail, or Chris Christie and the ARC tunnel). Even so, this one’s a doozy. Maryland Governor-elect Larry Hogan has the power to halt two major urban transit projects that have the planning […]

It’s His Commission: Blame Cuomo for MTA’s Underwhelming “Reinvention”

By Stephen Miller | Nov 26, 2014 | 13 Comments

The MTA Reinvention Commission report, the product of months of work from a panel of experts, was unceremoniously dumped to the press by the governor’s office at 5:30 p.m. yesterday, shortly before Thanksgiving. While the document [PDF] includes a number of worthwhile suggestions, it fails to seriously grapple with the biggest challenges facing New York’s transit […]

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