Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

Ed Koch, 1973: The Bicycle “Must Be Included” in NYC Transpo System

By Ben Fried | Feb 1, 2013 | 16 Comments

Thanks to reader Peter Frishauf for passing on this 1973 constituent letter he received from Ed Koch, who represented New York’s 18th Congressional District at the time. Forty years ago, Koch was putting out a more progressive message on bike policy than what we heard in 2011 from another U.S. Representative who had his eye […]

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Will Massachusetts Tax Parking Lots to Fund Transit?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 11, 2013 | No Comments

Here’s a transportation funding idea that aligns incentives nicely: taxing parking lots to pay for transit. That’s what one former high-ranking state official is proposing for Massachusetts, ahead of a big announcement by the state Department of Transportation. Earlier this week Governing Magazine looked at the parking lot tax plan, part of a series of […]

Jim Brennan Reintroduces $4.5 Billion Bond Measure for Transit and Roads

By Stephen Miller | Dec 19, 2012 | 4 Comments

When New Yorkers go to the polls less than a year from now, they’ll definitely be voting for a new mayor, and they might also be voting for billions in state-backed transportation funding, if a measure put forward by Assembly Member James Brennan clears Albany. Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat representing Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and […]

“People’s Fare Hike Hearing” Asks Albany to Take Action on MTA Funding

By Stephen Miller | Nov 13, 2012 | 2 Comments

As the latest round of fare hike hearings — the fourth in five years — continues around the region, turnout is low but rants against the MTA board are still at a high boil. As usual, the elected officials who allocate resources to the transit system are shielded from public accountability. But today, on a […]

Have the Days of Scapegoating the MTA Come to an End?

By Charles Komanoff and Alex Matthiessen | Nov 12, 2012 | 11 Comments

MTA Love. Two words that have never before been paired have been practically joined at the hip during the recovery from Superstorm Sandy. To wit: The “enthusiastic round of applause” accorded Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Joe Lhota at last week’s Association for a Better New York breakfast by real estate magnates and other civic power […]

MTA Wants to Take Payroll Tax Ruling Straight to State’s Top Court

By Stephen Miller | Aug 24, 2012 | No Comments

On Wednesday, a state Supreme Court judge ruled the Payroll Mobility Tax unconstitutional, saying that because the “budgetary crisis of the MTA is not a substantial state concern,” the law required a home rule message from the affected counties. Now, the MTA says it will appeal directly to New York’s top court. New York’s courts […]

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