NY Observer > New York City Subways http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/50852/feed Articles from Observer.com en Paying for Mass Transit without Raising Fares http://www.observer.com/2008/green/paying-mass-transit-without-raising-fares

One of the central elements of Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a sustainable New York City is to improve mass transit and get people out of their cars and into busses and subways. In addition to better and more frequent transit service, the city also needs to ensure that the price of mass transit is kept under control. In the aftermath of the defeat of congestion pricing, we see that mass transit in this region is under greater financial stress than at any time since the fiscal crisis of the mid 1970's.

State and local tax collections are in decline, and the MTA bears the burden of the Pataki philosophy of borrowing to fund transit infrastructure.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/green/paying-mass-transit-without-raising-fares#comments Green Congestion pricing George Pataki Mass Transit Michael Bloomberg MTA New York City Subways PlaNYC Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:50:47 -0400 Steve Cohen, Executive Director, Columbia University’s Earth Institute 72324 at http://www.observer.com Bloomberg and Spitzer on Westward Expansion http://www.observer.com/2007/bloomberg-and-spitzer-extended-no-7

Michael Bloomberg and Eliot Spitzer just unveiled a new sign at the 42nd Street station pointing to the expanding 7 subway line, which, when completed, will extend to 10th Avenue by the Hudson Yards.

"Whereever the subways have blazed a trail, the people have followed,” Bloomberg said.

“The city’s growth has mirrored the subway’s growth,” Spitzer said. “That is a fact. It is a historic reality."

When asked about Chuck Schumer’s criticism of the funding mechanism of the extension (which the city is paying for by selling bonds, not in partnership with the MTA) and the elimination of one proposed subway stop on the extension, Bloomberg jokingly replied, “Senator Schumer is never critical about anything. You must have confused him with someone else.”

Then, he called on Dan Doctoroff to answer the question. “This really is an economic development of the subway system,” and “we have an option to build out” in that area, he said.

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/bloomberg-and-spitzer-extended-no-7#comments Politics Dan Doctoroff Eliot Spitzer Michael Bloomberg New York City Subways Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:53:58 -0500 Azi Paybarah 61314 at http://www.observer.com There's a Reason We Have Emergency Exits http://www.observer.com/2007/barricading-subway-exits

No photograph ran with the online version of New York Post reporter Jeremy Olshan's story about the New York City Transit using barricades to block some ubway exits near Yankee Stadium.

The visuals are kind of essential to a) show how really bad an idea this is, and b) prove that it really happened.

So, here you go, courtesy of a well-informed reader.

The barricades, according to Olshan's story, have been removed. But still, how did they get there?

Hearings, anyone? 

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/barricading-subway-exits#comments Politics Jeremy Olshan New York City Subways New York Post Yankee Stadium Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:47:11 -0400 Azi Paybarah 57910 at http://www.observer.com