• Tag Archives: MTA

    Controversy as MTA and TWU Resume Contract Talks

    The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New York City’s Transport Workers Union are back at the bargaining table for the first time in about two weeks....

    TN MOVING STORIES: FAA Funding Agreement Reached; Tappan Zee Bridge Tolls’ Worst Case Scenario; MTA, Union Resume Talks

    Lawmakers say they’ve reached an agreement on a $63 billion, four-year bill to fund the FAA. Security video in the NYC death of cyclist Mathieu...

    Lady McCartney Leaves MTA Board

    (New York, NY — Brian Zumhagen, WNYC) Nancy Shevell has stepped down from the MTA board, where she had served since 2001. Shevell, who gained...

    TN MOVING STORIES: House Blasts Feds Over Chevy Volt Battery Fire Investigation, PATH Ridership Booming

    The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to give more weight to factors including affordable-housing policy in deciding which local mass-transit initiatives will get federal money....

    Bronx To Get Real-Time Bus Info

    Following on the heels of Staten Island, the Bronx will become the second of New York’s five boroughs to get real-time bus information. New York’s...

    MTA: Subway Blasting Not Creating Pollution

      The NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority says blasting for the creation of the Second Avenue subway line has not increased pollution.  But something else apparently...

    NY Gov Cuomo: MTA Considering “Additional Transit Applications” For New Convention Center

    Governor Cuomo briefly addressed the issue of mass transit out to his new favorite project, a massive convention center by near JFK Airport in Queens...

    MTA, Unions May Be Talking for A While

    Subways and buses are still running in New York City – despite the lack of a contract between about 34-thousand New York City Transport Workers...

    NY Gov. Cuomo Budget: MTA Not Gutted, $$ For Amtrak, Infrastructure Fund

    UPDATED Well, the numbers are out, and the Governor is proposing the New York MTA get $251 million to plug what its losing from the...

    TN MOVING STORIES: Another Speed Bump For California Bullet Train, Canada Annoyed with U.S. Over Keystone Pipeline, FreshDirect Wants Rail Access

    The chief executive of California’s bullet train project suddenly announced his resignation, just months before construction was supposed to begin. Access to rail is a...