Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed budget includes about $6.9 billion for state-owned road and bridge construction and repair, $3 billion toward the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s latest capital plan and boosts to the operating budgets of the MTA and other downstate transit agencies.
Transportation leaders Rick Cotton and Jamie Torres-Springer reiterated their commitment to sustainability and diversity at City and State’s annual infrastructure summit.
Despite the controversial new tax, MTA funding remains billions of dollars in the red. While NY Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters this week that raising taxes would be a last resort, state lawmakers argue differently. “You got to get revenue from somewhere,” said NY State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
The MTA released a report Monday showing traffic heading into New York City was down a week after the new congestion pricing plan went into effect.
Governor Kathy Hochul's safety plan deploys additional NYPD officers on NYC's overnight subways to enhance security.
Vowing that “on time and on budget has to be the mantra,” former Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Thomas Prendergast was hired Thursday to run the agency building the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
Congestion pricing was never just about reducing the number of cars in the city, though. Fewer cars would also mean a better quality of life for the millions of people who actually live in New York City, and in that regard, it sounds like congestion pricing has also been a success:
New York's MTA is claiming that, after only one week, the "congestion parking" initiative implemented is "working"
who heads the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York's sprawling subway, bus and commuter rail systems. "We're wasting a ton of money, literally billions of dollars ...
A new toll on drivers entering the core ... per day — compared to the equivalent period last year, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said. “Just look out the window: there ...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to spend a record $68.4 billion to modernize New York City’s aging transit system will create an estimated $106 billion of economic activity throughout the state over the next five years,
In her letter, Malliotakis said that the environmental assessment approved last year by President Joe Biden's Federal Highway Administration was insufficient