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Number of vehicles. 2,429 commuter rail cars. 6,418 subway cars. 61 SIR cars. 5,725 buses [1] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.
Conversely, a poll of New York City residents found that close to two-thirds of respondents were against the congestion toll. The MTA board gave its final approval to the plan at the end of March 2024, making New York City the first locality in the United States to approve the creation of a congestion-pricing zone.
2017–2021 New York City transit crisis. In 2017, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) due to ongoing reliability and crowding problems with mass transit in New York City. This order applied particularly to the New York City Subway, which was the most severely affected ...
In 2015, city officials contemplated including up to $600 million from value capture schemes in its $2.5 billion contribution to the MTA's capital program, according to news reports from the time ...
The transit agency also expects about $10.7 billion in federal funding to support the plan, including $2.9 billion for the next phase of the Second Avenue Subway. The MTA released an 11-page ...
For people making $500,000 or more per year, city income taxes would go up from 3.876% to 4.41% – a hike of 0.534%. De Blasio called it “a modest increase.”. “For an individual making ...
In 2003, the LIRR and Metro-North started a pilot program in which passengers traveling within New York City were allowed to buy one-way tickets for $2.50. The special reduced-fare CityTicket, proposed by the New York City Transit Riders Council, was formally introduced in 2004.
Hochul's preferred solution to avoid the hike came within her proposed budget, which included an MTA bailout that in part relies on raising the state's mobility tax from 0.34 percent to 0.5 percent.