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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
Congress Sells Out Non-Drivers by Reauthorizing FAST Act
Congress passed a short-term spending bill that will renew funding for our existing car-focused infrastructure, missing an opportunity to reform a broken system that's killing our planet and its people.
September 23, 2020
New COVID Relief Bill Gives Zero Dollars to Sustainable Transportation
Senate Republicans have released a new COVID-19 relief bill that allocates billions of dollars to air travel, but leaves zero dollars for the public transit systems that experts say are getting essential employees to work — and keeping our entire economy afloat.
July 28, 2020
Op-Ed: Feds Must Help Keep Transit Running
Transit is the only option for thousands of low-income essential workers — and essential for the revival of the regional economy — as New Jersey shows.
May 7, 2020
Feds Must Fix Hudson River Tunnel Before Catastrophic Failure Cripples New York
The Regional Plan Association estimates that a failure of the tunnel would cost billions to the New York region and send home values plummeting.
February 27, 2019
Trump’s Federal Transit Administration Has Gone Rogue
Donald Trump's U.S. DOT is refusing to do its job when it comes to transit, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
August 22, 2018
House GOP Transportation Bill Would Raise Taxes on Transit and Bikes
The bill would amount to a tax increase of more than $200 million annually on American transit agencies.
July 30, 2018
Slowly and Stealthily, Trump’s DOT Starves Transit Expansion Projects of Federal Funds
The Trump administration has slowed the release of federal transit grants to such a crawl that expansion projects in the works for years are now in jeopardy.
July 18, 2018
Transit Fares Surprisingly Well in House Spending Bill
With some hard-right House Republicans refusing to support the package, Democrats were able to secure a few spending priorities.
March 22, 2018
TIGER Is Trump’s Program Now: Most Grants Go to Highways
The full list of new TIGER grant awards looks a lot worse than the early announcements suggested.
March 14, 2018
