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Most E-ZPass lanes are converted manual toll lanes and must have fairly low speed limits for safety reasons (between 5 and 15 miles per hour (8 and 24 km/h) is typical), so that E-ZPass vehicles can merge safely with vehicles that stopped to pay a cash toll and, in some cases, to allow toll workers to safely cross the E-ZPass lanes to reach booths accepting cash payments.
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City.
By mid-July, the MTA had only conducted one meeting with Connecticut officials and none with New Jersey officials. [122] MTA officials had publicly stated in mid-2021 that the agency was earning enough from state taxes to pay for its capital upgrades and that it did not need congestion pricing funds for its 2020–2024 Capital Program. [123]
Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) is the primary public transit authority of Miami, Florida and the greater Miami-Dade County area. It is the largest transit system in Florida and the 15th-largest transit system in the United States. [4] As of 2023, the system has 80,168,700 rides per year, or about 276,400 per weekday in the second quarter of 2024.
Plans for a mass transit line to connect Honolulu's urban center with outlying areas began in the 1960s, [5] but funding was not approved until 2005. [6] Debate over the development of a rail system in Honolulu has been a major point of contention in local politics, especially leading into the 2008, 2012, and 2016 mayoral elections.
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The MTA hired Andy Byford as the president of the New York City Transit Authority in November 2017. [77] [78] Previously CEO at the Toronto Transit Commission, Byford assumed his new position in January 2018. MTA leadership expected that Byford would be able to devise solutions to fix the NYCTA's reliability issues, particularly those of the ...
In 2017 Janno Lieber became MTA Capital Construction president; [2] in 2021 he was appointed Acting Chair of the MTA. [ 3 ] Projects being built under MTA Capital Construction include the East Side Access and phases 2, 3, and 4 of the Second Avenue Subway .