Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Today’s Headlines

Oh Hey, No Biggie, Just MTA Chair Joe Lhota Moonlighting as an MSG Exec With $150K Salary (Politico) Inside the MTA’s Constant Struggle to Keep Groundwater From Seeping Into the Subway (NYT) Riders Alliance Rallies With Albany Lawmakers for a New MTA Revenue Stream (AMNY, Times Union) Carl Heastie: “Some Sort of Long-Term [MTA] Funding Is […]

If Cuomo’s Serious About Congestion Pricing, He Needs to Get Specific Real Soon (Crain’s) The Daily News Sees a Path for Cuomo and de Blasio to Get Congestion Pricing Done Jim Brennan: It’s Congestion Pricing or Bust for the MTA This Albany Session (Gotham Gazette) Ross Barkan Rips Jeff Klein and IDC for Grandstanding on […]

Cuomo’s Subway Caught Fire Again Yesterday (Post, News) Charles Komanoff on What Lower Manhattan Stands to Gain From Road Pricing (Villager) Gateway: Trump Ready to Risk It Out of Spite (Bloomberg) More Coverage of NYC’s Disintegrating Bus System (AMNY) MTA Renovation of Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station Won’t Include Elevators (AMNY) News — Which Excused Crosswalk Crashes — […]

Subway Service Is Improving: < 2 Massive Delays Per Weekday in December (NYT) Meet Joe Lhota, Andrew Cuomo’s Part-Time Political Attack Dog (Politico) Lhota Threatens to Punish All Straphangers for Fewer Fare-Beating Prosecutions (NYT) How the MTA Saddled Future SAS Riders With Longer Headways (Voice) There Is an L Shutdown Open House Tonight in Williamsburg […]

In de Blasio’s Alternate Reality NYC, Motorists Are Poor and Turnstile Jumpers Are Flush (Politico) Alon Levy: Land Use Has Concentrated Subway Ridership, But the System Isn’t Maxed Out Paul White: NYC Would Be More Affordable Without Moses-Era Parking Requirements (Crain’s) More Coverage of RPA’s Report Diagnosing High MTA Construction Costs (AMNY, Curbed, NY1) Melinda […]

RPA’s Dropping New Research Explaining High MTA Capital Costs and How to Fix Them (NYT) Alec Baldwin Called Up Brian Lehrer to Talk About MTA Construction Bloat (WNYC) Riders Alliance Heads to Albany Next Week to Demand a Transit Turnaround (Gotham Gazette) Phil O’Reilly Might Be Alive If Union Turnpike Wasn’t Designed for Lethal Driving […]