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MTA Prepares To Borrow $3B From Federal Reserve
The MTA Board is expected to approve a resolution that would allow the agency to borrow the maximum amount from the Municipal Liquidity Facility fund.
November 17, 2020
MTA Bus Boss: All-Electric Fleet is Still Years Away, Even With Fed Help
Hours after the Biden-Harris transition team declared its support for "zero-emission" transit fleets, we reached out to MTA Bus President Craig Cipriano to get his take.
November 12, 2020
DOT: 181st Street Busway is Not Likely For This Year
We thought only Brooklyn Dodger fans said, "Wait 'til next year!" Apparently, the mayor does, too.
November 3, 2020
NYC Transit Boss: City Has To Speed Up Bus Lane Installation
We'll never paint the town red at this rate.
October 28, 2020
President Trump’s ‘Anarchist’ Declaration Could Cost Transit Funds to New York, Others
The president threatened to cut funding to those cities — and, apparently, his agencies have gotten the memo.
October 14, 2020
ON TRACK: Joe Borelli — A Staten Island Republican — Demands Congress Save Transit
In the midst of pandemic relief negotiations in Congress, we asked Council Member Joe Borelli, a leading city Republican and a member of President Trump's re-election campaign, to explain to members of his party why transit is so important to our nation.
October 7, 2020
New MTA Rules Are Criticized As ‘Anti-Homeless’
The MTA cemented a series of emergency rules updating its code of conduct this week — rules that homeless riders and advocates said were aggressively anti-homeless.
September 24, 2020
EDITORIAL: Hey, Mr. Mayor, Ride the Freakin’ Subway or Get on the Damn Bus
Leadership means leading. If the mayor wants to restore confidence in the public transit system, he should show us all how much confidence he has in the system. By using it.
September 22, 2020
A Round and a Roundy: The City That Still Sleeps
Our cartoonist explores one of the great ironies of the coronavirus pandemic: how politicians celebrate the heroic, essential workers while at the same time failing to help them do their heroic, essential work.
September 22, 2020
Trump-Loving Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik Fails to Support Transit — And Hurts Her District: Report
President Trump's favorite upstate Congresswoman is hurting her own constituents as she refuses to act to save transit.
September 17, 2020
