Transit Access

NY group: Peddle and park at summer shows

Author: 
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Media Outlet: 
Buffalo News
Date: 
August 4, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York city parks organization is getting classy for its 25th annual summer performance series. This year they'll have valet service - for bicyclists.

Unused MetroCards Could Buy 23 Million NYers Rides Next Year

Subtitle: 
MTA expects to rake in $52 million from cards that are purchased but not used
Author: 
JENNIFER MILLMAN
Media Outlet: 
NBC New York
Date: 
August 4, 2010
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The initial budget plan proposes caps on weekly and monthly "unlimited" cards or a choice between cards that could push the cost of an unlimited monthly pass up to $130 a month in addition to severe s

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Just imagine all these people getting a free ride.
Submitted by volunteer on October 12, 2010 - 17:55. categories [ ]

MTA's Bus Cuts: The Hardest Hit

Subtitle: 
Transit service reductions will inconvenience millions of commuters. But for thousands of people in a few neighborhoods, the cuts will be more deeply felt.
Author: 
Jake Mooney
Media Outlet: 
City Limits
Date: 
August 2, 2010
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Most of the bus service reductions recently imposed by the MTA cause relatively short delays, 5 minutes here or 10 minutes there.

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The M8 bus faced elimination in MTA budget cuts this year. It was spared, but did not escape unscathed: Weekend and overnight service was ended.
Submitted by volunteer on October 12, 2010 - 17:35. categories [ ]

After the fare hike vote, finger-pointing and funding proposals

Subtitle: 
Benjamin Kabak
Media Outlet: 
2nd Ave Sagas
Date: 
July 29, 2010
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Now that the MTA Board has set in motion the next round of fare hikes, transit advocates have begun to lay out their positions on the MTA's latest foray into the economic morass.

Submitted by volunteer on October 12, 2010 - 17:18. categories [ ]

MTA moves ahead with hikes, layoffs

Author: 
Michael Cusenza
Author Title: 
Assistant Editor
Media Outlet: 
Queens Chronicle
Date: 
July 29, 2010

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority this week announced it has closed its enormous budget gap, but a hike in MetroCard fees, bridge and tunnel cash tolls and continued station agent layoffs were

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TWU Local 100 Station Division VP Maurice Jenkins, left, Assemblyman David Weprin and ATU Local 1056 VP Mark Henry at last Friday’s press conference. PHOTO BY MICHAEL CUSENZA
Submitted by volunteer on October 12, 2010 - 16:45. categories [ ]

One stop forward, two stops back: Bus lane cameras will help - but trouble's coming for straphangers

Author: 
Gene Russianoff and Lindsey Lusher Shute
Media Outlet: 
New York Daily News
Date: 
June 23, 2010

Brace yourself, city subway and bus riders. Next week - in the heat of summer - we'll begin feeling the brunt of the worst service cuts we've seen in decades.

Submitted by volunteer on June 29, 2010 - 17:21. categories [ ]

Will Robert Lieber’s Successor Finally Fill the Gaps in PlaNYC 2030?

Author: 
Noah Kazis
Media Outlet: 
StreetsBlog
Date: 
May 19, 2010
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City Hall has another big vacancy to fill. This morning the Bloomberg administration announced that Robert Lieber, deputy mayor for economic development, is returning to the private sector.

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NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Lieber. Photo: New York Daily News
Submitted by volunteer on June 17, 2010 - 15:18. categories [ ]

How 'Transit-Oriented Development' Will Put More New Yorkers in Cars

Author: 
Brian Paul
Media Outlet: 
Gotham Gazette
Date: 
April 1, 2010
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In its effort to achieve a "greener and greater New York" while accommodating one million new residents, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PlaNYC2030 embraced transit-oriented development" -- the concentratio

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Queens West, like many of the large new developments in the city, will provide thousand of parking spaces when it is completed.
Submitted by volunteer on May 6, 2010 - 16:25. categories [ ]

Getting From Here To There

Subtitle: 
With deep transit cuts in the works, activists and officials prescribe new ways to travel around the city.
Author: 
Emily Keller
Media Outlet: 
City Limits
Date: 
March 27, 2010

Transportation groups and activists are discussing contingency plans in the face of a planned reduction in bus, subway and Access-A-Ride services that are scheduled to take effect by the end of June.

Submitted by volunteer on March 31, 2010 - 10:31. categories [ ]

Streetfilms: Fixing the Car-Centric City

Media Outlet: 
Grist Magazine
Date: 
March 11, 2010

"Fixing the Great Mistake" is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions co

Submitted by volunteer on March 18, 2010 - 16:28. categories [ ]