MTA Finances
Here We Go Again
Over the last month or so, the MTA has found its name in the spotlight for one piece of bad press after another. Just when you think this vicious cycle has slowed down, out comes the news of 60 MTA Bridge & Tunnel employees who receive employee cars with gas included as a perk. Alison […]
Editorial On MTA Funding
Today’s edition of the morning newspaper Metro has an excellent editorial by Neil deMause on MTA funding. Here is his piece: As if New Yorkers hadn’t been beset by enough bad news of late — foreclosures going through the roof, “The Real World” filming its next season in Brooklyn — last week the MTA chimed […]
The MTA Is In Deep Doodoo
This sentiment was shared by a member of a panel which met this past Thursday to discuss post congestion pricing solutions for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Em Whitney of the New York Observer filed this report: Last night at the New York Blood Center auditorium on the Upper West Side, Assemblyman Micah Kellner moderated […]
MTA Wants To Upgrade Communications At 44 Subway Stations
Lately the MTA has had one piece of negative publicity after another. However Pete Donohue of the New York Daily News has a positive piece about the MTA’s plan to upgrade communications in 44 subway stations. Here is his report: Despite the dark clouds hanging over the MTA, there’s some good news for straphangers – […]
New York Transit Champions
Associate Director Veronica Vanterpool of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign posted a stellar entry questioning where the champions are in Albany & New York City for our mass transit system. Here is a small sample of her entry: A common thread ran through several MTA meetings held this week: there is not enough money to meet […]
