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Op Ed
Transportation
How to Fill the MTA's Budget Gap
November 18, 2014
Nearly six of every 10 of the 3.7 million people entering New York’s central business district each weekday rely on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s commuter rails, subways and buses.
Op Ed
Capital Spending
What New York Should Do With $4B
July 23, 2014
New York State will soon receive more than $4 billion in settlements from large financial institutions. It is an unprecedented windfall and it is generating discussion about what to do with the money.
Op Ed
Transportation
PATH Should Be Run By New Jersey Transit
May 04, 2014
PATH is the only mass transit system in the nation with no tax subsidy. That should be changed, and responsibility for running PATH should be shifted to New Jersey Transit.
Video
Transportation
MTA: More Subway Tubes Flooded During Sandy Likely Need Repairs
NY1
September 17, 2013
The head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority warns that subway tubes flooded during Hurricane Sandy likely still need repairs on equipment damaged by saltwater.
Op Ed
Capital Spending
Think Small to Think Big
July 10, 2011
In the July 2011 edition of the PPP Journal, Senior Research Associate Maria Doulis reviews the success of public-private partnerships in NYC and considers opportunities for pursuing additional PPPs.
Op Ed
Transportation
MTA Bus Service: Lots of Passengers, Limited Efficiency
May 17, 2011
CBC Executive Vice President and Director of Research Chuck Brecher pens an op-ed on our recent report comparing the MTA's unit costs with other large urban transit agencies in the United States.
Op Ed
Transportation
The MTA: Who'll Pay?
December 02, 2008
This op-ed by CBC President Carol Kellermann and Research Director Charles Brecher proposes the most equitable division of responsibility for mass transit in the metro area. CBC believes that the appropriate balance among riders, car and truck drivers, and the general public (in the form of tax subsidies) is about 50/25/25.