Stopping MTA Service Cuts Requires Joint Effort
New Yorkers are mad as hell about plans to cut transit service, Access-a-Ride, and free NYC student MetroCards — public hearings across the MTA region
March 4, 2010
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New Yorkers are mad as hell about plans to cut transit service, Access-a-Ride, and free NYC student MetroCards — public hearings across the MTA region
Public hearings on the MTA’s proposed service cuts begin tonight in Nassau and Westchester Counties, and will continue over the next week in the five
At tomorrow’s MTA board meeting, New York City students will ask to meet with MTA Chairman Jay Walder and discuss the agency’s plan to begin
NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is mobilizing parents and straphangers in defense of the city’s endangered free student MetroCards. His office is seeking volunteers
Alarm bells are ringing for transit in the New York metropolitan area, TSTC and other members of the Empire State Transportation Alliance told elected leaders
Over the last week, federal lawmakers from New York floated two proposals having to do with transit stimulus funds. One would put transit riders in
The new Nassau County Legislature Presiding Officer, Republican Peter Schmitt, has proposed and passed raises that average 42% for himself, the Democratic Minority Leader Diane
Governor Paterson’s budget, released last Wednesday, could mean doomsday times two for transit riders and even poorer road and bridge conditions for drivers. $104 million
New Yorkers need leadership from their elected officials to avoid the devastating service cuts announced by the MTA today. The cuts have been tweaked from
Last Thursday, MTA and NYCDOT officials released a first look at the design for the M15 “Select Bus Service” on First and Second Avenue in