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November 2009
Fri 6: Safer, More Livable Streets for the East Side -- The Campaign Heats Up 3
October 2009
Mon 26: Jay Walder and NYC Buses, Part 2: What Can the MTA Do for Bus Riders? 11
Thu 22: Off-Peak Discounts for NYC Transit: An Intriguing Idea 24
Wed 21: Jay Walder's Well-Placed Priorities: Doing More With New York City Buses 9
Wed 7: NYC, SF, and DC Sign Deals to Upgrade Transit Technology 1
September 2009
Wed 23: The Case for Open MTA Data: Transparency, Savings, and Easier Riding 17
Thu 3: The Jay Walder Compensation Confirmation Circus Gets Underway 3
August 2009
Tue 18: Time-Polluting Daily News Honcho Goes Public 17
Tue 11: Real-Time Bus Tracking Pilot Is Live on 34th Street [Updated] 16
Mon 10: What If Everyone Drove to Work? 34
July 2009
Tue 21: Second Avenue Subway Keeps on Slipping Into the Future 28
Tue 14: Fare Hike Four to Paterson: Not So Fast 7
Tue 14: It's Official: Paterson Taps Jay Walder to Head MTA 5
June 2009
Tue 30: Adriano Espaillat Reaffirms Love of Traffic, Distaste for Tolls 2
Mon 29: Fare Hike Coverage: We Know the Effect, But What About the Cause? 28
Fri 26: New Yorkers Taxed (Again) for Not Owning Cars 12
Fri 19: Might Nat Ford Succeed Lee Sander as MTA Boss? 0
Tue 16: Final BRT Phase II Workshops This Week 0
Wed 3: The Fuse Is Still Lit on MTA Debt Bomb 3
May 2009
Thu 14: LaHood: NYC's Congestion Pricing Money Still There for the Taking 14
Fri 8: Want a Clean Bill of Health for the MTA? Call Obama. 11
Thu 7: Lee Sander Stepping Down 23
Thu 7: Planning the Next Phase of Select Bus Service 13
Thu 7: Albany's Choice... or Ours 5
Thu 7: Senator Diaz: Sticking It to Transit Riders and Proud of It 28
Wed 6: We Can't Go on Living Like This 12
Tue 5: Albany Reaches MTA Deal 21
Tue 5: Malcolm Smith Spins Transit Band-aid as Victory for "Reform" 9
Mon 4: Bloomberg: MTA Plan Must Include Funding for Capital Projects 8
Mon 4: Paterson Abandons Long-Term MTA Financing Effort 12
Fri 1: Don't Keep Transit Riders in the Dark, Governor 6
Fri 1: Albany and City Hall Slouch Toward MTA Endgame 14
April 2009
Wed 29: Eric Schneiderman Cedes Leadership on MTA Rescue 5
Wed 29: Transit Riders to Albany: Get to Work on a Real MTA Solution 0
Tue 28: Cartoon Tuesday: Jump the Gates or Dump the Stooges? 2
Tue 28: Rally for Transit Rescue Today at Union Square 6
Tue 28: Malcolm Smith: New York Transportation Policy "Not About the Merits" 4
Mon 27: Time for Working Families Party to Step Up for Riders, Endorse Bridge Tolls 4
Fri 24: Can Kibbles 'n Bits Save the MTA? 17
Thu 23: Bloomberg Slams Senate MTA Plan, Says Tolls Must Be Part of the Mix 6
Tue 21: Another Bad Transit Plan from the State Senate 17
Mon 20: Senate Dems Release Another MTA Funding Plan Without Tolls 23
Fri 17: Highlights from Today's RPA Regional Assembly 7
Thu 16: Needed: A Better Way to Sweeten the Ravitch Plan 25
Mon 13: Transit Service Shrinking? Get Ready for the Rise of the Dollar Van. 31
Wed 8: The Latest in Piecemeal Transit Funding 4
Wed 8: State DOT Pulls Transit Bait-and-Switch on Staten Island 17
Tue 7: State Sen. Andrew Lanza Defends Stance on MTA Rescue 30
Mon 6: Has John Liu Jumped the Shark on MTA Rescue? 10
Mon 6: MTA Blame Game: The View from Staten Island 11
Mon 6: Bill de Blasio Comes Out for $2 East River Bridge Tolls 14
Mon 6: B77 Riders Protest Service Cuts. Is Velmanette Montgomery Listening? 3
Thu 2: Adriano Espaillat: Upper Manhattan Prefers Doomsday to Bridge Tolls 20
Wed 1: Under Sander, How "Bloated and Wasteful" Is the MTA? 6
Wed 1: Working Families Party Leaps Into 'Halt the Hike' Mode 16
Wed 1: Fare Hike Four Open Door to Suburban Copycats 14
March 2009
Tue 31: Cartoon Doomsday, Part 2 1
Tue 31: Three Men in a Room Spike Bridge Tolls 13
Mon 30: State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery Sides With Fare Hike Four 20
Fri 27: New York Post Organizing MTA Rescue Bus Trip to Albany 4
Fri 27: The Day After 22
Fri 27: Asked for His MetroCard, Diaz Goes Berserk 11
Fri 27: Whither the MTA: Beyond the Failed Stopgap 14
Thu 26: Putting Facebook to Work for Transit Rescue 7
Wed 25: With No Plan for Transit, the Next Fare Hike Is Just Around the Bend 16
Wed 25: Victory for the Fare Hike Four: Transit Riders Will Pay More for Less 16
Wed 25: MTA Doomsday Hotline: How to Reach Your State Senator 4
Tue 24: Doomsday Open Thread: What's Your Plan? 32
Mon 23: Where Does the Working Families Party Stand on MTA Rescue? 5
Mon 23: Doomsday News: MTA Votes, Paterson Plays Chicken, Monserrate Indicted 8
Mon 23: N.Y. Drivers' Unexpected Ally: The New York Times Metro Desk 11
Mon 23: Live: Follow the MTA Finance Committee's Fare Hike Meeting 0
Mon 23: Dear State Senators, Don't Let MTA Rescue Come to This 0
Fri 20: Huge Coalition Lines Up Behind Ravitch's MTA Rescue Plan 29
Fri 20: Streetfilms: Straphangers Tell Albany to Save Transit 4
Thu 19: Poll Watch: Paterson Getting No Respect for MTA Rescue Efforts 11
Thu 19: Doomsday Transit Cuts, District by District 0
Wed 18: The Four Stooges 11
Wed 18: Fare Hike Four Looking Out for Number One 4
Tue 17: Caption Contest: Re-name This Foursome 45
Mon 16: Kruger: MTA Funding Plan Will Be "So Outside the Box." 27
Fri 13: Transit Riders to Diaz: Not In Our Name 5
Fri 13: Event Reminders: Mapes Tonight, Albany Next Wednesday 0
Thu 12: Blame Game Continues: Smith Swipes at MTA, Monserrate Goes Anti-Toll 10
Thu 12: Bronx Transit Riders to Rally Today at Diaz Sr.'s Office 11
Wed 11: Gene Russianoff on What's Next for MTA Rescue 2
Wed 11: Support the MTA Rescue: Be Your Own Lobbyist 1
Mon 9: Weiner Says New York Drivers Should Be Exempt From Tolls 19
Mon 9: Streetfilms: Signing On to Save Transit 1
Fri 6: MTA Rescue Alert: Tell Electeds What You Oppose 11
Fri 6: Bus Riders Testify About the Necessity of Transit 2
Thu 5: Kruger, Espada, and Diaz Leave MTA Rescue on Life Support 25
Thu 5: Lew Fidler Threatens to Thwart Bridge Tolls 22
Wed 4: Espaillat to Westchester: My District Is Your Doormat 7
Tue 3: Hello MTA Bailout, So Long Truck Tsunami? 14
Tue 3: Paterson's MTA Rescue Bill Now Online 1
Tue 3: How Would MTA Control Affect Bridge Bike-Ped Access? 11
Mon 2: Shelly's Toll Plan: Promise Beyond the Headlines 17
February 2009
Fri 27: BRT and New York City, Part 4: Getting It Right 24
Thu 26: BRT and New York City, Part 3: Ingredients of a Great BRT Corridor 7
Thu 26: Senate Dems Denounce Bridge Tolls as Doomsday Draws Closer 19
Wed 25: Jim Brennan: It's Okay to Fund Transit With Fees on Driving 3
Wed 25: BRT and New York City, Part 2: What We've Got So Far 10
Tue 24: BRT, Rail, and New York City: A Conversation With Walter Hook 115
Wed 18: Tell State Legislators to Avert MTA Doomsday 1
Fri 6: Commute Times in Weiner Land Lag as Bus Ridership Booms 14
Wed 4: Albany's Transit Sins Come Back to Bite America 4
Mon 2: Jeffrey Dinowitz, Then and Now 1
January 2009
Fri 30: Real-Time Bus Info: There's Always Next Year 24
Wed 28: Congestion Pricing Foe Bill de Blasio (Grand)Standing Up for Straphangers 0
Fri 9: Bridge Tolls or Fare Hikes? The Voice of the People Says... 11
Thu 8: Quick Impressions of the MTA's Sustainability Report 7
Wed 7: Metro-North Makes Its M-7 Train Cars More Bike-Friendly 35
December 2008
Fri 19: Will the Transit-Riding Public Get a Fair Shake? 19
Wed 17: Squadron: Responsibility for MTA Rescue Lies With Albany 2
Mon 15: Stimulus Package on Track to Perpetuate Transpo Status Quo 12
Fri 12: Toll-Free Bridges Already "Tough" on South Bronx and Upper Manhattan 25
Wed 10: Q & A With Charles Komanoff on Kheel Plan 2 7
Wed 10: Kheel Plan 2 Seeks to Plug MTA Budget Gap 21
Thu 4: Weiner's Transit Plan: [This Space Intentionally Left Blank] 14
Thu 4: More on the Ravitch Commission's MTA Fix 20
Thu 4: Ravitch Unveils Broad MTA Rescue Package 14
Thu 4: Pols Skeptical Ahead of Ravitch Report Release 66
Wed 3: Ravitch Rumor Mill: Report to Urge More Investment in BRT 9
Tue 2: Kellner to Ravitch: Don't Bother Proposing East River Bridge Tolls 4
November 2008
Wed 26: Brodsky: Assembly "Working to Find Partners" for MTA Funding 13
Tue 25: Where They Stand, Or Don't: The MTA Doomsday Scorecard 7
Tue 25: Nick of Time 3
Tue 25: Crain's: East River Bridge Tolls Should Complement Commuter Tax 2
Mon 24: Thompson: Car Commuters Should Pay Their Fair Share 11
Fri 21: Kheel Planners: MTA Austerity a Recipe for Gridlock Hell 7
Thu 20: MTA Budget Proposes Severe Service Cuts, Perpetual Fare Hikes 16
Thu 20: Dear Mr. Brodsky: What Now? 8
Wed 19: With Transit System Crumbling, Fox 5 Zeroes in on Sander's Shiny Shoes 11
Fri 14: John Liu Wants Federal Bailout for MTA, Calls Bridge Tolls a "Distraction" 10
Wed 12: Manhattan Buses Dominate Pokey and Schleppie Awards 5
Mon 10: MTA Stares Down Billion-Dollar Deficit as Liu and Weiner Mock Bridge Tolls 20
October 2008
Thu 16: Eyes on the Street: MTA Trailer Planted on Broadway Sidewalk 4
Thu 16: Using Twitter to Catch a Train 3
Wed 1: New MTA Grates Double as Seating, Bike Racks 12
September 2008
Wed 24: Is It Time to Swap the 2nd Ave Subway for Bus Rapid Transit? 32
Tue 23: Google Transit Mapping Comes to New York 2
Tue 16: Ravitch Commission Faces Difficult Task of Shoring Up MTA's Future 11
Mon 15: DOT, MTA Launch 34th Street Select Bus Service Today 4
Mon 15: What If a Rep From NYC Chaired the Assembly Transpo Committee? 5
July 2008
Mon 28: The Biggest Fare Hike Factor? It Could Be MTA Debt 8
Wed 23: Fuel Costs, Declining Revenues Slam MTA. Will Anyone Face the Facts? 9
Thu 17: Touring the East Side Access Tunnel, Surrounded By Schist 19
June 2008
Thu 19: MTA Big: Transit Is An "Inconvenience" Fit for "Common People" 24
May 2008
Thu 29: Responding to Criticism, Sen. Adams to Hold Transpo Meeting 13
Mon 19: Will the Real Transit Advocates Please Stand Up? 57
Mon 19: MTA Reaches Deal for Hudson Yards... Again 2
Mon 19: MTA Launches Bike-and-Ride Web Site 16
Wed 14: Daily News to Congestion Pricing Opponents: "Your Fault" 15
April 2008
Tue 22: Will Richard Ravitch Resurrect Congestion Pricing? 8
Tue 8: Gene Russianoff on the MTA's $17.5 Billion Hole 12
Mon 7: Breaking: Joan Millman to Vote "Yes" on Pricing 18
Mon 7: With Congestion Pricing Dead, a $17 Billion Transit Deficit Looms 34
Wed 2: Brennan Introduces Alternative Pricing Bill in Assembly 32
Wed 2: Corzine Ratchets Up Interstate Bickering 13
March 2008
Mon 31: $1 Billion From Port Authority Not Enough for Shelly Silver 23
Fri 28: Bloomberg: Expect Some Tweaks to Pricing Bill 13
Thu 27: Robots Against Congestion Pricing 20
Wed 26: Quinn Says MTA Troubles Show Why We Need Pricing 3
Tue 25: Pricing Hearing: Sadik-Khan and Aggarwala Explain the Details 31
Fri 21: Congestion Pricing Bill: Fun With Legalese 27
Wed 19: Bloomberg Says There's No Reason Pricing Shouldn't Pass 40
Wed 5: Silver Calls Hearing on Pricing and MTA Capital Plan 8
Tue 4: Council Members Want "Blatantly Unfair" Toll Credit Corrected 56
Mon 3: Sander Makes the Case for MTA Capital Plan and Pricing 3
Mon 3: Denny Farrell: Less Traffic and Pollution? No Thanks. 17
February 2008
Fri 15: To Lubricate Street Life, Lower the Unlimited Fare 29
Thu 14: Queens Pricing Opponents Push a Fantasy Commuter Tax 26
Fri 8: New Congestion Pricing Plan, Same Jeffrey Dinowitz 10
Mon 4: The Human Rights Argument For BRT And Pricing 16
Fri 1: Congestion Pricing Plan Includes a "Livable Streets Lock Box" 54
January 2008
Thu 31: Congestion Commission Recommendation: First Look 44
Thu 31: Congestion Panel to Recommend Abbreviated Pricing Plan 20
Mon 28: What Will It Take for Assemblyman Kellner to Vote for Pricing? 12
Mon 28: Streetfilm: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Bogotá 64
Wed 23: Ridership Surges on MTA Bus Co. Routes 6
Thu 17: Road Pricing and Public Transit: The "Virtuous Cycle" 19
Thu 17: As Anti-Pricing Arguments Fall Away, It's Just Parking & Politics 6
Fri 4: A Year After Eric Ng's Death, Greenway Hazards Remain Unfixed 42
December 2007
Thu 20: MTA Cheered and Jeered, But Mostly Jeered 6
Wed 19: Shocker: MTA Board Approves Fare Hike 32
Mon 10: More Boring Photos 6
November 2007
Tue 27: Eliminate the Parking Requirement 65
Mon 26: TSTC.org Would Be More Thankful If... 4
Tue 20: Spitzer Basks in Fare Freeze Afterglow 16
Tue 20: Spitzer Calls on MTA to Retain $2 Base Fare 18
Mon 19: NYC Voters Oppose Pricing Unless it Helps Prevent a Fare Hike 37
Wed 14: Brian Ketcham Proposes a "Simpler, Cheaper Traffic Fix" 41
Tue 13: Saturday: MTA to Liven Up Public Hearings 3
Fri 9: MTA Chief Links Congestion Pricing to Fare Hike... or Not 35
Thu 8: Big Builders Explain Why Congestion Pricing is Important 4
Thu 8: For the Best in Transportainment, Try a Pedicab 8
Tue 6: Staten Islanders Keeping an Open Mind on Congestion Pricing 25
October 2007
Mon 29: The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will 33
Mon 29: Bruno: "The people who travel around are taxed enough." 7
Mon 29: Correcting Thursday's MTA Bike Seizure Correction 5
Thu 25: MTA: Not Stealing Bikes. Just Following the Rules. 23
Wed 24: Now the MTA is Stealing Bikes in Williamsburg 65
Wed 17: Promising Aid, Lawmakers Ask MTA Not to Raise Fares 1
Mon 15: The MTA is Testing Battery-Powered Buses 6
Thu 11: Caption Contest: MTA Public Outreach Strategy 25
Mon 8: MTA Says it Needs More Money for Congestion Pricing 10
Wed 3: Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights 1
September 2007
Wed 26: Variable Pricing at MTA Bridges and Tunnels Would Ease Traffic 8
Mon 10: MTA Marks 75 Years of A Train Service 6
Thu 6: On Behalf of 5.2% of His Constituents, Dinowitz Opposes Pricing 54
August 2007
Fri 24: First-Ever Electronic Bus Status Display Installed in Manhattan 18
Thu 23: Make Your Own Subway Advisory 0
July 2007
Fri 13: BRT Moving Ahead but City Pushes Back the Timeline a Bit 7
Thu 12: Details of Proposed Bus Service Expansion 9
June 2007
Thu 28: Express F Rally Today, with Council Members 2
Wed 27: Roberts: MTA Needs Congestion Pricing 6
Wed 20: Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan 20
Fri 15: Eyes on the Street: Franklin Avenue 6
Thu 14: Assembly Considers Bankrupting MTA to Reduce Congestion 5
Fri 8: 96th St. Subway Station and Sidewalk Reduction Moving Ahead 3
Thu 7: Congestion Pricing Plan Advancing Rapidly 6
April 2007
Mon 30: Who Wants to Drive Into a City That's Under Water? 0
Fri 27: Bus Bulbs Useless Without Enforcement 10
Tue 10: Co-op City Group Wants Bus Rapid Transit to Keep Its Distance 3
March 2007
Tue 20: Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT? 13
February 2007
Mon 26: A Weekend Subway Ride With Robert Moses 15
Tue 20: Will "Atlantic Yards" Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link? 4
December 2006
Fri 15: Sander Picked for MTA Director 8
November 2006
Mon 20: Gov. Spitzer Transition Team Transpo Committee Named 0
Tue 14: Rumor Mill: Sustainability Announcement Tomorrow 30
Wed 1: Mr. Inside Track Helps You Understand the MTA 8
Wed 1: Subku 4
October 2006
Fri 27: Rumor Mill: The MTA's Next Chairman 2
Wed 25: MTA Response to Pokey: Traffic Congestion = "Vibrancy" 10
Tue 24: DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors 33
June 2006
Thu 8: The 96th Street Sidewalk Nibblers 0
April 2006
Wed 19: Slow-Moving Bus Rapid Transit 5