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State Budget
What to Expect in Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State Address
NY1
December 21, 2015
Governor Cuomo said he wants an additional mile-and-a-half of track built to create a rail link between La Guardia Airport and Willets Point in Queens.
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Transportation
Taxi Tax Shrinks: MTA’s bottom line cut as taxi ridership plunges
NY1
November 23, 2015
Fifty cents goes to the MTA every times you ride a yellow or green taxi, but with taxi ridership shrinking, so does the MTA's bottom line.
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Transportation
Riders Should Not Expect Quick Fixes as MTA Prepares to Put
NY1
October 13, 2015
At close to $30 billion, the MTA is about to get handed a record sum of money to maintain and expand a transit system that's showing wear and tear from record ridership, but riders shouldn't expect quick fixes.
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Transportation
Report Finds MTA Not Keeping Up With Repairs at Current Rate
NY1
September 02, 2015
A new report urges the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to pick up the pace on making station repairs throughout a system that's more than a century old and to look for new ways to fund the work.
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Transportation
Citizens Budget Commission Lays Out Ways to Tax For-Hire Car
NY1
August 26, 2015
Thanks to the surge of car services like uber, fewer and fewer people are taking yellow cabs—and it's just not cabbies who are feeling the pinch. The decline has real implications for the city's transit system, which received fifty cents for every cab ride.
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Transportation
Money for the MTA
Brooklyn Independent Media
July 22, 2015
The Mayor's Executive Budget, which leaves unanswered how billions of dollars in much-needed transit improvements will be funded. The MTA is preparing its capital plan through 2019 which will determine the system's future condition.
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Transportation
Group Wants Drivers to Foot MTA Budget Gap Bill
NY1
March 25, 2015
Drivers could be paying more to help fund mass transit if one non-profit group gets its way.The Citizens Budget Commission is proposing a number of fees on cars and trucks to help the MTA close a $1 billion gap in its capital investment program.
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Transportation
NY1’s The Call Discusses CBC Fare Proposal in Recent Report
NY1
March 25, 2015
NY1's The Call discusses CBC Proposal in Recent Report "More than Fare: Options for Funding Future Capital Investments by the MTA.
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Transportation
Citizens Budget Commission Says MTA Riders Should Pay More
NY1
October 15, 2012
As the MTA prepares to raise subway and bus fares once again, a fiscal watchdog group says riders should pay even more than what the agency is expected to propose.
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Transportation
Future Priorities of the Port Authority
A Panel Discussion
September 19, 2012
Three Former Executive Directors of the Port Authority discuss what went wrong and how the Port Authority should move forward to be effective in carrying out its mission.
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Transportation
Pat Foye, Port Authority Executive Director
CBC Breakfast Series
February 01, 2012
CBC Breakfast with Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye in February 2012.