MTA Fare Increase Will Hurt Its Own Ridership: Guest CommentaryThis Thursday, May 22, the Los Angeles MTA will vote on a staffmotion to increase transit fares...Eric MannManuel Criollo
MTA leaders said losses from fare evasion threaten reliable transit and increase the need for fare hikes. Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani said many don't pay because they can't afford it. He suggested the MTA make all buses free and get reimbursed by the city and state. "That's about...
With MTA Board approval, there will be a proposed 5.5 percent toll increase and a 4 percent fare increase for 2023, in addition to one that the MTA board voted on July 19 to take effect at the end of August to raise an additional $117 million in 2023, with a...
about 4 trains an hour max could run through the tunnel. NYS is looking to increase Amtrak service to upstate and this capacity would be taken over by such service. Adding infill stations along the west side of Manhattan would make sense for Metro North, but...
Subway and bus riders were facing significant fare hikes this year, but the budget deal reached in Albany seems to have solved a major problem at the MTA.
($90 033) after HEA, ranging from a maximum reduction of $1 014 276 to a maximum increase of $1 523 765. At the aggregate level, net-positive changes in payment adjustments were largest among safety net hospitals ($...
While the MTA should look to streamline operations and cut expenses and while the state could explore a gas tax increase to help the MTA close its budget gap, fare hikes and service cuts would decimate transit in NYC without moving the needle more than a few percentage points. It’s federa...
a break with precedent as he has sat on prior MTA appointments in the past. With Byford’s Fast Forward plan in need of funding and a 2019 fare hike on the horizon, the MTA cannot afford to be without permanent leadership for too long, and the newly-empowered Democratic State Senate will...
MTA aims to increase reliance on fare-backed bonds.(Metropolitan Transportation Authority)(New York Public Finance)Ricthmyer, Richard
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