Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit

Queens Council Member Costa Constantinides is running for Borough President with an ambitious transit and safe streets platform. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Costa Constantinides: Break the Car Culture of Queens — With Better Transit and More Biking!

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 10, 2020 | No Comments

"Our borough is long overdue for a holistic transit plan that provides reliable bus and subway service to get people out of their cars," said the would-be Queens borough president. Vote on March 24.

This is what showed up to testify. Photo: Dave Colon

CORO-NO SHOW: MTA Ditches City Council Hearing For Pandemic Prep

By Dave Colon | Mar 9, 2020 | No Comments

City Council members were sickened on Monday morning ... by the MTA skipping a City Council budget hearing.

Workers toiled at the Second Avenue Subway's 86th St. cavern in January, 2014. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew

Op-Ed: The Second Avenue Subway’s Lessons for American Transit

By Philip Mark Plotch | Mar 9, 2020 | No Comments

How to avoid the mistakes that make the East Side line, the most costly subway extension ever built.

Council Member Donovan Richards, center, address reporters at a bus redesign rally in Jamaica. Photo: Dave Colon

Queens Pol (And Would-Be Borough President) Demands a Busway in Jamaica

By Dave Colon | Mar 6, 2020 | No Comments

Council Member Donovan Richards — who is also running for Beep — said Archer Avenue in Jamaica should go car free to support better transit.

This will simultaneously get better, and worse, to ride inside the city. Photo: MTA

Op-Ed: Commuter-Train Fare Cut Doesn’t Help Low-Income New Yorkers

By Samuel Santaella | Mar 4, 2020 | No Comments

Even with an intracity discount, the MTA continues to prop up a system of transit Apartheid.

The DOT and MTA agree: It's time to paint bus lanes like there's no tomorrow.

ANALYSIS: For Faster Bronx Buses, Get Rid of Cars

By Eve Kessler | Mar 2, 2020 | No Comments

Until the city commits to more busways, the MTA's bus-network redesign amounts to tinkering. Bring on the red paint!

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