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The MTA’s Capital Plan Remains Held at the Station as Major Funding Gap Grows
The $68.4 billion capital improvement plan, even with congestion pricing starting up in the new year, was still short by about $33 billion.
MTA track worker dies after collapsing in Brooklyn
Ricardo Louis, 44, was assigned to a track cleaning gang along the L line in Bushwick early Wednesday morning when he collapsed aboard a work train in the Morgan Ave. station at 3:10 a.m., Alina
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Deportations And ICE Tactics Worry NYC Mayoral Hopefuls
The Brooklyn Democratic Mayoral Forum on Thursday brought together five mayoral hopefuls who shared their perspectives on policing, immigration and more.
New York Democrats' new tax forces middle-class workers into lawless subway tunnels
New York City is imposing a controversial new driving tax on vehicles headed south of Central Park or into Manhattan from New Jersey and Brooklyn.
More Taxes Could Slam New Yorkers Over MTA Budget Shortfall
Taxes in New York may just get worse. State lawmakers argue that New York City’s congestion pricing won’t be enough to cover the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) $33 billion budget deficit,
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Kathy Hochul wants cops on every NYC subway train overnight: 'No one should be in fear'
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed Tuesday she wants police officers on every New York City overnight subway train for the next six months.
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MTA mum on congestion pricing revenue
Systemwide, the MTA anticipated a 1% increase in transit ridership with congestion pricing, but day-to-day fluctuations make it hard to pinpoint the impact, said Michaelson.
Traffic into NYC drops 7.5% in first week of new congestion toll
NEW YORK (AP) — A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City’s heavily-gridlocked streets in its first week of operation, according to preliminary data released Monday by the state’s transit authority.
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NYC’s New Congestion Pricing Zone Sees 7.5% Drop in Traffic
Traffic on New York City’s busiest streets dropped by 7.5% and morning travel times fell on most major crossings into Manhattan during the first work week of the city’s congestion pricing plan.
Kamillah Hanks calls on MTA to fix flawed congestion pricing disability exemption plan
What was meant to provide critical relief has instead devolved into a bureaucratic nightmare." — Kamillah Hanks
Woke one-party government has left NYC just as unprepared for disaster as LA
New Yorkers should feel scared as they watch Los Angeles neighborhoods obliterated by fire. Gotham could be the victim of the exact same kind of dysfunctional one-party government that puts woke
MTA’s latest ‘solution’ to $800M fare evasion scourge turns into train wreck as flood of NYC subway riders vault over turnstile spikes
At least five riders were spotted by The Post vaulting past the sharp metal barriers at the 59th Street/Lexington Avenue station over the course of just one hour Friday morning.