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Stephen Nessen

Articles by Stephen Nessen


Stephen Nessen covers transportation. Since 2008 he has reported on everything from Occupy Wall Street, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, Hurricane Sandy, to Trump’s campaign for president. His transportation reporting has taken him everywhere from the MTA’s secret Rail Control Center to the gleaming subways of Seoul. Got a tip? Email [email protected].

NJ Transit and Amtrak promised rider they would do a better job working together. We have bad news: a real fix isn’t likely coming until the late 2030s.


State senators confirmed to Gothamist they’re discussing a Goldilocks price for the tolls that’s low enough for Hochul to swallow but high enough to raise sufficient money for the cash-strapped MTA.


The demonstrators gathered in Midtown, beneath toll cameras they’d thought would start charging drivers June 30.


The Fair Fares program offers half-priced MetroCards to low income residents.


The Port Authority is preparing for major construction.


Not since the MTA announced the closure of L train service between Manhattan and Brooklyn — a plan former Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly changed in 2019 — has transit construction frustrated so many Brooklynites.


A major renovation was planned for the historic station until Gov. Hochul's pause on congestion pricing ripped a $16.5 billion hole in the MTA’s budget for construction projects.


MTA board members described details of the new plans as “a financial disaster” and “dire.”


The MTA has a new strategy in its war on fare evasion: convincing New York City students to pay the fare.


The ruling represented a legal victory for the MTA, which is reeling from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to halt the tolls.


The Department of Transportation’s latest vision for the highway’s triple-cantilever structure in Brooklyn Heights stacks traffic lanes directly atop one another.


The long-sought subway line is one of several MTA projects on the chopping block after Gov. Kathy Hochul indefinitely paused congestion pricing.


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