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.
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.
Gov. Phil Murphy has asked Port Authority officials to disclose how much the bi-state agency has lost in tolls due to New York’s new congestion pricing program that charged $9 to enter Lower Manhattan.
The express commuter bus missed a turn on the route that travels between Manhattan and the Bronx. The driver, the sole occupant of the bus, was not injured.
Behind the political fight over the new tolling program is a deepening crisis in the transportation system in New York City and around the country for which neither political party has an answer.
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.
Transportation leaders Rick Cotton and Jamie Torres-Springer reiterated their commitment to sustainability and diversity at City and State’s annual infrastructure summit.
Governor Kathy Hochul's safety plan deploys additional NYPD officers on NYC's overnight subways to enhance security.
The scheme aims to ease New York's notorious traffic problems and raise billions for the public transport network. Most drivers are charged $9 once per day to enter the congestion zone at peak hours, and $2.25 at other times.
New York City's new Manhattan congestion pricing program is expected to generate $15 billion for the city's public transportation system. Details here.
New York's MTA is claiming that, after only one week, the "congestion parking" initiative implemented is "working"
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 ...