UPDATED: Mayor to MTA: You Can Have My Money … on Three Conditions! By Gersh Kuntzman and Dave Colon | Sep 25, 2019 | 6 Comments The MTA is expecting $3 billion from the mayor — but he wants to make sure the agency exhausts a lot of other funding first.
The MTA’s Secret Capital Plan Is More Secretive Than We Thought By Dave Colon | Aug 26, 2019 | 5 Comments Congestion pricing will soon fill the MTA bank account — but the agency is being very secretive about how it plans to spend the windfall.
Good News/Bad News: MTA Has A $50B Capital Program — But It’s Still a State Secret By Dave Colon | Aug 9, 2019 | 6 Comments Even if the draft plan remains a state secret, the amount, at least, made sense to transit activists.
The MTA Reorganization Won’t Fix Your Commute By Dave Colon | Jul 25, 2019 | 3 Comments A new MTA is on its way, though what it will look like is still an open question.
Op-Ed: More Questions About Cuomo’s Belmont Boondoggle By Streetsblog | Jul 22, 2019 | 2 Comments More and more advocacy groups are questioning an MTA deal that would construct a new LIRR rail platform near Belmont Park to serve a new arena for the New York Islanders. The latest is Reinvent Albany.
The Rumor Mill: Separating Fact from Fiction in Andrew Cuomo’s Bid to Sideline Andy Byford By Dave Colon | Jul 4, 2019 | 4 Comments As the MTA hurtles towards a huge reorganization, no one knows what the next phase of the MTA will actually look like, or who will get to run what.