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According to the NY State Comptroller's office projects, debt service on the MTA's bonds will top $3 billion a year by 2018. Future generations of transit riders should beware the MTA’s debt-backed plan to support its capital construction program. As a September report from NY State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli makes clear, the plan [...] ConnDOT's Eugene Colonese loads a bicycle onto a prototype rack being tested on a Metro-North train at Union Station in New Haven on Thursday. Metro-North Railroad officials are testing bike racks on the railroad’s newest rail cars, the M-8s, which are being rolled out on the New Haven Line. The agency had prototype [...] A new website for a Veolia-run Long Island Bus system suggests that service cuts are on the way next year, and declines to guarantee that fares will stay the same in 2012. Things are looking worse and worse for Long Island Bus riders, who face privatization of the system next year. Over the [...] Setzer. On Sunday, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano was able to display his 1969 Chevy Corvette at the county’s second annual “Cruise to the Show” parade and vintage car show. Bus riders didn’t have such a pleasant weekend, thanks to some ominous news from Veolia Transportation Vice President Michael Setzer. Setzer, who will [...] Riders testify at a "people's hearing" in Garden City on Wednesday in front of advocates and state and county elected officials. Soon after the hearing began, the event was standing-room only. For months, Nassau County has planned to privatize its Long Island Bus system, handing it over to international firm Veolia Transportation at [...]  A rendering of what the development could look like, from the Harrison Station Conceptual Master Plan. This summer, the MTA/Metro-North put out its first ever Request for Proposals for transit-oriented development (TOD). Branded “It’s Happening in Harrison,” this project involves transforming 3.28 acres of surface parking adjacent to Westchester County’s Harrison train station [...] A new report from NYC’s Independent Budget Office examines the many dedicated taxes and fees that help underwrite the health of the MTA and keep transit riders moving in downstate New York. Dedicated taxes and fees represented about 40% of the MTA’s $10.9 billion operating budget in 2010, with the rest coming from fares, tolls, [...] The B44 doesn't run in bus lanes today, but much of the route will have them in the future, speeding up buses as part of New York's Select Bus Service initiative. The B44 bus line in central Brooklyn, New York City’s fifth busiest route, carries more than 40,000 riders a day. But it hardly [...] A Central Midlands Regional Transportation Authority bus in 2010. In early June, Nassau County announced that Veolia Transportation will operate its bus system starting in January 2012, and claimed that there would be no fare increases and service cuts in 2012. Since then, the County has failed to disclose any further information about [...] Today the MTA announced its budget proposal for 2012 and explained how it plans to fill a $9 billion gap in its capital construction program. Media reports were generally positive, but transit advocates were critical of the plan because it relies on the issuance of $7 billion in more debt and puts more of [...] |
 
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