Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Funding

Budget Deal Prevents MTA Collapse, But Keeps Fuse Lit on Debt Bomb

By Noah Kazis | Mar 27, 2012 | 3 Comments

The MTA doesn’t face an immediate crisis thanks to the budget deal struck by Albany’s leadership yesterday. But with the deal continuing to rely on debt to pay for the next three years of repairs and expansions, it doesn’t put the region’s transit system on firm financial footing either. Earlier this month, Senate Republicans issued a […]

Are Council Members Ready to Pay for Their MTA Wish List?

By Noah Kazis | Mar 6, 2012 | 2 Comments

The New York City Council doesn’t like the MTA’s budget. And really, who would? Fares and tolls are scheduled to rise in 2013 and again in 2015, bus lines cut in 2010 aren’t scheduled to ever come back, and the MTA is assuming net zero increases for transit worker compensation. It’s a product of worldwide […]

Will Michael Grimm Reject the House GOP Attack on His Constituents?

By Noah Kazis | Feb 9, 2012 | 2 Comments

It isn’t only Democrats blasting the House Republican transportation bill, which would eliminate dedicated federal transit funding, cost the MTA up to $1 billion a year and slash bicycle and pedestrian funding. In the transit-dependent New York region, some Republicans are balking at the ferociously anti-urban legislation. But many of their colleagues remain studiously silent. […]

Why Won’t the “New York Works Fund” Pay for Transit?

By Noah Kazis | Feb 7, 2012 | 2 Comments

Despite the fact that over one quarter of the state’s population takes transit to work, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s marquee infrastructure program won’t invest in public transportation. With so much still unknown about the governor’s “New York Works Fund” — including very basic information about how it will be structured — the reason why Cuomo is […]

NYC Congress Members, MTA Chief Repudiate House GOP Attack on Transit

By Noah Kazis | Feb 6, 2012 | 3 Comments

Four New York City members of Congress joined the chairman of the MTA today to bluntly denounce the House GOP’s anti-transit transportation bill. “It’s the worst piece of legislation you could ever imagine,” said MTA chief Joe Lhota, a Republican who served as the city’s budget director during the Giuliani administration. “The worst transportation bill […]

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Massive Coalition Opposes House GOP Attempt to Eviscerate Transit

By Ben Goldman | Feb 3, 2012 | No Comments

The House Ways and Means committee has just passed a bill that would kick transit out of the Highway Trust Fund, casting aside a 30-year history of providing a dedicated funding source for federal transit programs. Transit instead would be funded by a transfer from the general fund, which would have to be offset by […]

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