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MTA Chair Joe Lhota. Photo: MTA/Marc Hermann via Wikimedia Commons

A Whole Lhota Excuses About High MTA Construction Costs

By Alon Levy | Oct 25, 2017 | 9 Comments

New York City's sky-high subway construction costs are finally getting some much-needed attention from elected officials. But with pressure mounting to reform MTA capital construction practices and bring costs down, the agency is falling back on familiar excuses.

Just 4 percent of outer borough workers car commute into Manhattan, and of those, the vast majority are from middle- or high-income households. Image: Community Service Society

De Blasio’s Wrong: Poor New Yorkers Stand to Gain a Lot From Congestion Pricing

By David Meyer | Oct 24, 2017 | 27 Comments

Hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers stand to benefit from new transit funding, compared to just 5,000 who might pay tolls to car commute under the Move NY plan.

With all-door boarding, buses move faster because riders don't have to pay one-by-one at the front of the bus. Photo: Ben Fried

MTA’s Next-Gen Fare System Contract Treats All-Door Boarding as an Experiment, Not an Urgent Priority

By David Meyer | Oct 24, 2017 | 2 Comments

While the capability for citywide all-door boarding will be embedded in the new fare payment technology, the MTA's contract with Cubic shows the agency is still in no rush. It includes a pilot of all-door bus boarding on some lines but no firm commitment to citywide adoption.

Council Member Helen Rosenthal speaking this morning alongside Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and State Senator Michael Gianaris. Photo: David Meyer

Council Members Press for Investigation of High MTA Construction Costs

By David Meyer | Oct 16, 2017 | 6 Comments

City Council members are speaking up about the runaway price tag of subway infrastructure in New York City, pressing the MTA to rein in capital construction costs that outstrip those of peer cities across the globe.

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Uber and Lyft Are Cannibalizing Transit in Major American Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 13, 2017 | No Comments

New research from UC Davis shows that cities must strengthen transit in response to the growth of ride-hailing services.

Carl Heastie and his Democratic conference. Photo: Amirabbady00/Wikimedia Commons

State Lawmakers Are Failing at MTA Oversight

By Brad Aaron | Sep 19, 2017 | 1 Comment

In 2016, neither the Assembly nor the State Senate held a single oversight hearing about the decline of NYC transit service.

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