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Gov’s Budget Would Beef Up Red Light Camera Program

By Ben Fried | | 15 Comments
Red light cams have been proven to increase safety on New York City streets. Photo: mwilkie/Flickr Dig deep enough into Governor Paterson’s austerity budget and you’ll actually find a few pieces of good news. Case in point: One provision would allow New York to expand its red light camera program, currently limited to 100 cameras, […]

More on the Ravitch Commission’s MTA Fix

By Ben Fried | | 20 Comments
Photo: New York Times Brad hit the major points from today’s Ravitch/Paterson/Bloomberg press conference. Here are some more details on the MTA rescue plan they unveiled. (The whole Ravitch Commission report is available as a PDF.) Bridge tolls would be cashless, using E-ZPass and license plate capture technology, not toll booths. The city would transfer […]

Ravitch Unveils Broad MTA Rescue Package

By Brad Aaron | | 14 Comments
Former MTA chief Richard Ravitch stood with Governor David Paterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning to discuss details of his commission’s plan to keep the cash-starved MTA afloat both in the short-term and in years to come. Streetsblog’s Ben Fried attended the news conference and will have more later. For now, here are a […]

Pols Skeptical Ahead of Ravitch Report Release

By Brad Aaron | | 66 Comments
The much-anticipated report from the Ravitch Commission is scheduled to be released within the hour. The report is expected to include recommendations for an eight percent increase in transit fares along with tolls on East River and, possibly, Harlem River bridges — measures deemed necessary to avert the MTA "doomsday" scenario of a 23 percent […]

Google Transit Mapping Comes to New York

By Brad Aaron | | 2 Comments
This morning a number of public officials, including Governor David Paterson, joined Google co-founder Sergey Brin in announcing his company’s new city transit mapping tool. The service covers MTA subway and bus lines, along with PATH and New Jersey Transit routes. New Yorkers (including yours truly) who have been frustrated in the past by Google […]
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