Stephen Nessen
Articles by Stephen Nessen
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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