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To fund MTA's $68B rebuild plan, NY should nab fare-beaters, squeeze straphangers and taxpayers alike, watchdog says
The Citizens Budget Commission also calls for "modest" increases in fares, tolls and vehicle registration fees to generate $6.8 billion in revenue.
Hochul will defy Trump deadline to stop NYC congestion pricing -- but insists president still backs her Penn Station revamp plan
Hochul is framing the Penn project as one of her biggest areas of agreement with Trump, but noted he winced when she asked him to help secure a massive $6...
Hooray! Team Trump is rescuing working-class motorists from Kathy Hochul's elitist Midtown tolls
Hooray! Team Trump has come to the rescue of working-class motorists and killed the city’s despised congestion-pricing tolls. Kudos to President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
MTA touts congestion pricing success on traffic — but no revenue or air quality data yet
"I'm very happy to say what we studied, what we expected and what we planned for is what seems to be happening,” the MTA's Juliette Michaelson said Wednesday.
The MTA only has itself to blame for another 'bad look' deadbeat toll evaders story
If you feel like ripping out your EZ-Pass after learning the MTA has failed to collect over $5.1 billion in unpaid MTA tolls and fees the past four years, we...
Deadbeat drivers racked up $5B in unpaid MTA tolls — here's why ‘cashless’ payments may be to blame
The MTA is owed billions of dollars in tolls and penalties from deadbeat drivers.
Widow of grandpa killed in NYC subway says Hochul's new transit patrols wouldn't have saved husband - as shooter remains on loose year later
The widow of a grandfather killed on a Brooklyn train a year ago said Gov. Kathy Hochul's subway safety plan wouldn't have stopped her husband's ruthless killer — and hasn't...
MTA installs spikes at NYC subway station to deter fare evaders -- but straphangers doubt it will work
The Post spotted workers installing the aggressive-looking apparatus Wednesday along the turnstile handrails at the 59th St./Lexington Ave. stop, which services the N, R, W, 4, 5 and 6 lines.
Citi Bike costs jump again after summer price hike – and owner Lyft’s push for NYC congestion pricing
Lyft boosted its Citi Bike prices Monday -- just as they're set to make a killing off of congestion pricing they lobbied for. The bike rental service made the decision...
NYC subway riders blindsided by R train closures — but some say alternative is safer than violence-plagued trains
Brooklyn straphangers were blindsided by R train closures over the weekend — even as some were relieved to avoid the Big Apple’s violence-plagued underground. The R was suspended from Friday...
G train riders jazzed about open-gangway trains coming in 2025 after 'summer of hell' shutdown
At least two five-car open gangway trains will be transferred from the C to the G line in the first quarter of 2025 – and riders will have about a...
MTA's emergency exits are a gauntlet of dangers like exposed wiring, broken handrails and missing lights: audit
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's emergency exits are a gauntlet of dangers, with crumbling walls, exposed wiring -- and even broken handrails on paths 30 feet above ground, a scathing new...
NYC e-bikes, scooters may soon need license plates, registration after 46 deadly crashes in 5 years
This bill has a ticket to ride. The City Council is mulling a law that would require license plates and registration for electric bikes and scooters -- after 47 people...
Hop aboard this vintage NYC subway train for the holidays -- and ride back in time
A vintage New York City subway train will begin weaving its way across Manhattan starting Sunday and returning every Sunday through December -- transporting straphangers back 120 years.
NYers mourn Van Ritshie, longtime voice of LIRR, Metro North announcements: ‘That voice is the Long Island Rail Road'
He's left a gap in the hearts of commuters. Van Ritshie, who for three decades cautioned MTA riders to "watch the gap" as the official announcement voice on LIRR and...
Exclusive: Powerful NYC teachers union boss flunks Hochul, Dems over 'tone-deaf' congestion toll
No longer the teacher's pet. New York City teachers' union president Mulgrew flunked New York's "tone deaf" Democrats for socking working class New Yorkers with a $9 congestion toll --...
NYC straphangers go from 'summer of hell' to winter nightmare with line shutdown: 'Worst thing that could happen’
Service on the A line and its shuttle to the Rockaways -- the only trains to the area -- is set to be cut from Jan. 17 to May 19...
Queens residents spar over proposed 16-mile waterfront bike path: ‘No place to put this fantasy’
The outrage reached a fever-pitch at Thursday's Department of Transportation public workshop about the project, which descended into chaos as verbal and physical spats erupted between advocates and naysayers.
New York City subway system turns 120 — here's what it looked like in 1904
"We want people to think about what the next 120 years look like," Concetta Bencivenga, New York Transit Museum director, told The Post. "The subway is for everyone. It’s the great...
New Yorkers share their most memorable subway moments — good, bad and ugly — as rail system turns 120
“The subway is like the eighth wonder of the world,” Rick McGuire, 40, founder of virtual people-watching hub @SubwayCreatures, told The Post of the city's train system, which celebrates its...