Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Jay Walder

MTA Identifies $2 Billion in Savings — Now Comes the Hard Part

By Noah Kazis | Jul 26, 2011 | 7 Comments

Jay Walder’s surprise resignation announcement last week overshadowed some important news about the MTA’s finances: The agency has identified $2 billion in savings in its capital program [PDF], which maintains and expands the transit system, but expects $1 billion less in federal assistance. That brings the total gap in the five-year, $26 billion capital plan […]

Walder Praised After Resigning; Successor Will Be Thrust Into Era of Scarcity

By Noah Kazis | Jul 21, 2011 | 19 Comments

In his relatively brief time at the helm of the MTA, Jay Walder earned widespread plaudits for introducing technological innovations while guiding the agency through increasingly perilous financial straits. His departure comes at a critical moment for the transit agency. With a $9 billion deficit facing the MTA’s capital program at the end of this […]

Jay Walder Resigns as MTA Chief, Effective October 21 [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Jul 21, 2011 | 15 Comments

After a two-year tenure during which he earned the praise of transit advocates as a skilled and innovative leader, MTA Chair Jay Walder has announced that he will step down effective October 21. Walder, who was appointed by governor David Paterson in July 2009 and took the CEO position that October, will be taking the […]

Cuomo Will Retain Jay Walder and Chris Ward

By Ben Fried | Jan 24, 2011 | 4 Comments

Erik Engquist at Crain’s has the good news. Governor Cuomo will keep two widely respected managers at the helm of the MTA and the Port Authority: Jay Walder will be retained as MTA chairman and chief executive and Christopher Ward as executive director of the Port Authority, the source said. Both men have been informed […]

Walder: MTA Commitment to Open Transit Data Is For Real

By Ben Fried | May 6, 2010 | 8 Comments

At a conference at Google’s Chelsea office last night, MTA Chair Walder said all the right things about working collaboratively with software developers, confirming the agency’s dramatic turnaround on open transit data. After a longstanding policy of keeping a tight lid on route and schedule information, the MTA reversed course earlier this year and began […]

State Senate on Transit Funding Meltdown: It Wasn’t Us

By Brad Aaron | Dec 14, 2009 | 18 Comments

After omitting bridge tolls from last spring’s transit funding package, then raiding the "piggy bank" to the tune of $143 million, Albany’s neglect of the MTA has left millions of transit-dependent New Yorkers in the lurch. Yet lawmakers have shown no inclination to get to work patching the agency’s ever-widening budget hole, much less coming […]

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