The grim tone of today’s MTA Board meeting was set with opening remarks by Board Chairman Dale Hemmerdinger who said solving the transit system’s financial
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
Slower than a walking elephant! More powerful (but slower) than a running chicken! Taking on tens of passengers at a single stop! It’s a taxi!
The Staten Island Railroad freight line, which is NYC’s only connection to the national freight rail network and which reopened in 2007 after lying dormant
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
Don’t miss out on two smart growth events being organized by TSTC allies. Both are next Thursday, November 13: The seventh annual Vision Long Island
Long Island has the two deadliest roads in the region for pedestrians. Long Island Bus is bursting at the seams with new riders. The Island
Democrat Roy Simon is challenging Republican State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (also running on the Conservative and Independence tickets) in New York’s 9th Senate District which encompasses parts of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County. […]
