The Federal Highway Administration reported last month that 2008 revenues into the Highway Trust Fund fell $3 billion from 2007 levels. It seems that $4
As part of its “Blueprint America” program, PBS affiliate Thirteen/WNET New York will air a “New York Voices” segment about the MTA’s financial crisis and
Along with East River bridge tolls and additional payroll taxes, MTR has learned that improved bus service throughout the MTA region will be a
Yesterday NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson announced a plan (available here) to raise over $1 billion to fund the MTA — more than enough to halt
According to a New York State Budget Bulletin released November 4, all agency projects “not involving Federal reimbursement of at least 75 percent or impacting
Like the other MTA agencies, Long Island Bus is facing deep service cuts and steep fare increases. However, the MTA plan to balance LI Bus’s
The 24 subway lines that traverse NYC are often personified as “veins” and “arteries,” so it is apt that Environmental Defense Fund, in a recent
This morning the New York Daily News reported on the doomsday budget that the MTA will unveil at its next board meeting on Thursday. It’s
New York’s State Commission on State Asset Maximization, a panel charged with studying whether leases of state assets or other “public-private partnerships” (PPPs) should be
As predicted, MTA officials had nothing but bad news at this morning’s special finance committee meeting. Agency officials said the MTA’s deficit had grown by
