To fund MTA’s $68B rebuild plan, nab fare-beaters, squeeze riders, taxpayers: watchdog
New York officials must seriously crack down on getting fares to fund the MTA's newly proposed $68.4 billion, five-year capital plan recommended by a new report released Friday. Gov. Kathy Hochul will also need to scrap her $3 billion “inflebate” check program to New York taxpayers proposed in her executive budget plan, dedicating the state's […]
NY county sick of being ‘MTA’s ATM’ with little service in return — now it wants out of transit agency: lawmakers
Juice is not worth the orange aperture. Orange County in New York is fully used as an ATM of the Metropolitan Transportation Bureau, and we want to withdraw the burning transportation. Hudson Valley County has a very limited service from MTA, but still provides money to MTAs through salary taxes and other rates. 。 The […]
MTA’s emergency exits are a gauntlet of dangers like exposed wiring, broken handrails and missing lights: audit
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's emergency exits are riddled with hazards, including crumbling walls, exposed wiring and even broken handrails on walkways 30 feet above ground, a scathing new audit has found. Officials with the MTA Office of Inspector General Daniel G. Cote inspected 163 locations and found that a whopping 41% were in need of […]
MTA’s pop-up store sells MetroCard machines and other strange items — but buyers have to act fast
Stand away from clearance racks. The MTA's annual New York City Transit Authority inventory-turned-memorabilia yard sale is back. No reservations are required this time. The MTA's annual yard sale is once again an event where decommissioned New York City transit inventory is purged of memorabilia. MTA This month's sale celebrates the MTA's fourth annual pop-up. […]
Kamala Harris win in November will ensure MTA’s ‘success’: Hakeem Jeffries
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris’ victory in the presidential election would be key to saving the cash-strapped MTA following the repeal of New York City’s congestion pricing program. Jeffries, one of D.C.’s most senior Democrats, declined to say whether the federal government would continue to give billions of […]
Three cheers for Kathy Hochul for nixing the MTA’s bid to hold up the NYC Marathon
Good — great! — about Governor Hochul waiving the MTA’s foolish move of charging the New York Road Runners Club $750,000 to close the Verrazano Bridge for the New York Marathon. “I have directed the MTA to resolve this confusion and allow the marathon to proceed as usual,” the government told the Post. MTA tellers […]