Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed budget includes about $6.9 billion for state-owned road and bridge construction and repair, $3 billion toward the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s latest capital plan and boosts to the operating budgets of the MTA and other downstate transit agencies.
Despite the controversial new tax, MTA funding remains billions of dollars in the red. While NY Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters this week that raising taxes would be a last resort, state lawmakers argue differently. “You got to get revenue from somewhere,” said NY State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
Governor Kathy Hochul's safety plan deploys additional NYPD officers on NYC's overnight subways to enhance security.
The MTA released a report Monday showing traffic heading into New York City was down a week after the new congestion pricing plan went into effect.
Vowing that “on time and on budget has to be the mantra,” former Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Thomas Prendergast was hired Thursday to run the agency building the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
The MTA has invested in 265 electric buses using funds from congestion tolls, with goals for a zero-emission fleet by 2040.
New York’s state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched its long-awaited congestion pricing program at midnight on Sunday, January 5. On the eighth day of the program, the MTA released data on its progress. As anyone who walked, drove ...
The congestion zone covers an area south of Central Park, taking in such well-known sites as the Empire State Building, Times Square and the financial district around Wall Street.
The first congestion pricing plan in the U.S. has begun, charging most drivers $9 a day to enter the lower half of Manhattan. The long-debated plan is projected to raise up to $800 million a year for the city's aging public transit system.
New York's MTA is claiming that, after only one week, the "congestion parking" initiative implemented is "working"
A new toll on drivers entering the core ... per day — compared to the equivalent period last year, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said. “Just look out the window: there ...
who heads the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York's sprawling subway, bus and commuter rail systems. "We're wasting a ton of money, literally billions of dollars ...