NYC Comptroller: Car Fees Could Raise $1B for Transit
Yesterday NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson announced a plan (available here) to raise over $1 billion to fund the MTA — more than enough to halt
November 24, 2008
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Yesterday NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson announced a plan (available here) to raise over $1 billion to fund the MTA — more than enough to halt
While the MTA’s doomsday budget means that NYC Transit, LIRR, and LI Bus riders must deal with night and weekend station closures and total elimination
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
Interest in transit-oriented development (TOD) is soaring. This past Friday, New York University’s Rudin Center held a conference on TOD that was its best-attended conference
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
The unnecessary widening of the Garden State Parkway between exits 67 and 80 moved one step closer to reality last Friday when the Pinelands Commission
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
One reason smart growth is called “smart” is because it creates a lively street experience and reduces automobile use by allowing people to walk, cycle,
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!