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wat ??? !!!
Gov. Hochul says NY has ‘successfully’ funded the MTA for over a century. Huh? more: https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochu...-a-century-huh |
Yeah that's some tone-deaf revisionist history. The subway system was basically near full collapse 40 years ago. That doesn't happen to a "successfully" funded agency. and that's before you acknowledge the subway and commuter RR's have essentially been locked in amber in terms of even modest expansion.
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meh —
Gov. Hochul wants to lower congestion pricing from $15. The process could take years. By Stephen Nessen Published Sep 11, 2024 As the MTA’s congestion pricing scheme remains in limbo, state officials are mulling a simple question about the price of the Manhattan tolls: how low can they go? Since Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed the brakes on the program in June, she’s said the $15 base charge approved by the MTA “was too much for New Yorkers at this time." MTA officials arrived at the price after years of research and an exhaustive federal review process. The figure also complies with a 2019 state law that requires congestion pricing to bring in $1 billion a year for the MTA’s construction department. But experts warned that amending the fee structure could reboot a bureaucratic process that might kill any chance that the tolls will launch in the near future. Michael Gerrard, a Columbia Law School professor and director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, said Hochul would have a relatively straightforward path if she dropped the base fare to $9, because the MTA previously studied that price as part of the program’s environmental review. Any price lower than that could lead to major speed bumps. more: https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochu...uld-take-years |
yikes —
MTA needs up to $92B for transit upgrades, maintenance through 2029, report says more: https://gothamist.com/news/mta-needs...29-report-says |
Its been a while since my last Subway Photo dump...heres the last 2 months
I have the Car all to Myself An Empty Clean Broad Channel bound Shuttle Train at the Rockaway Park-116th Street Station https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0a3c9ddc_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c7aae13d_c.jpg Superhero Responds Superhero Responds by artist Katherine Bradford at the 1st Avenue Station in Manhattan,New York https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9c800f54_c.jpg A Manhattan Bound L Train departing Broadway Junction Station https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d8874ef3_c.jpg Brooklyn, New Morning by artist Al Loving at the Broadway Junction Station concourse https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...745e730a_c.jpg The Broadway Junction Station J Train Platform https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0ddee224_c.jpg 2 R211 A trains meeting on Subway Island on Jamaica Bay in Queens,New York https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...34fd5960_c.jpg A Rare opening of the South Channel swing bridge in Queens,New York https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1f8cbdba_c.jpg An A train crossing the South Channel swing bridge https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f2e8bef5_c.jpg 2 Rockaway Park Shuttle trains meeting on the trestle approach to the South Channel swing bridge https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d8521f32_c.jpg A Slight bend in the center track at Whitehall Street Station in Lower Manhattan,New York https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3cac7519_c.jpg Carroll Street Station in Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn,New York https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d172d620_c.jpg Life Underground by artist Tom Otterness at the 14th Street station Platform https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...84486890_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...22e4c126_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...539ca893_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...fbb31137_c.jpg The 14th Street Mosaic Tile signage on the IRT Seventh Ave-Broadway Line https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4bbf2467_c.jpg An Empty B train approaching the last stop at Brighton Beach https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...41f287f6_c.jpg Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue Station, One of the largest elevated terminal stations in the world, hosting 4 different lines across 8 tracks. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3cc1a7c4_c.jpg My Coney Island Baby by artist Robert Wilson at the Coney Island - Stillwell Ave Station https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...bb916559_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e0601d8a_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4fd03664_c.jpg A Manhattan Bound D train waiting for departure at Coney Island - Stillwell Ave Station in Brooklyn,New York https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...cef28218_c.jpg The Q train upper Level at West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium station in Coney Island https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6086407f_c.jpg A Mets-Willets Point Bound 7 train departing the Steinway Tunnel in Long Island City https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...21577592_c.jpg An Eastbound 7 train entering a curve on the elevated viaduct near Courts Square Station https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4a3c4e86_c.jpg |
^ nice pix.
the ‘new’ bway junction el shed always carches my eye. as for the w14st station, when they rehabbed it and put the otterness statues in i was repulsed. they are all cutesy and lightly subversive and all that … until you come to find out the guy literally made a short artsy video of shooting a dog to death to gain his early art world clout. so it was my home station and i had to look at that almost every dam day heading off to work. ef that guy. |
more omny card vending machines added —
MTA adds OMNY vending machines to dozens of NYC train stations By Barbara Russo-Lennon Posted on September 10, 2024 more: https://www.amny.com/news/mta-omny-v...rain-stations/ https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uplo...esize=1200,854 An OMNY vending machine at Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center, one of the first to be turned on in the subway system, on Oct. 30, 2023. Marc A. Hermann / MTA |
ok, but speed it up —
NYC's IBX light rail line gets funding under MTA plan, but construction remains years off By Ramsey Khalifeh Published Sep 18, 2024 at 3:37 p.m. ET more: https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-ibx-...ains-years-off |
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high hopes … no really, i mean he’s high — :sly:
MTA Chair Lieber ‘confident’ Governor Hochul, state legislature, will find funds for MTA’s big capital plan By Shane O’Brien Posted on September 18, 2024 MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Wednesday he is confident that the MTA will get the $68.4 billion needed to fund the five-year capital plan unveiled the same day. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/lieber-...tal-plan-2024/ https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uplo...esize=1200,676 MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber speaks about five-year capital plan at the Corona Maintenance Yard in Queens on Sept. 18, 2024. Photo by Shane O’Brien |
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MTA seeks to replace thousands of old railcars and modernize transit fleet in capital plan, board to vote on Wednesday
By Ben Brachfeld Posted on September 24, 2024 … The proposal is part of the MTA’s $68 billion capital plan, which was proposed last week and will be subject to a vote on Wednesday at the MTA Board on whether to advance. The agency says it hopes to replace 1,500 subway cars and 500 commuter rail cars serving the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North by 2030. MTA brass said that thousands of cars that entered the system in the 1980s are nearing the end of their useful life and constantly need maintenance; the oldest cars in the fleet break down about six times more frequently than newer ones and, on average, can travel far fewer miles between failures. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/mta-rep...tal-plan-vote/ https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uplo...esize=1200,879 The MTA intends to spend nearly $11 billion replacing 1980s-era railcars, such as the R62 (pictured). Marc A. Hermann / MTA |
I still think a rebuilding and modernizing of the R-62/R-62A fleet is a much better use of money. New traction motors, updated interiors, component upgrades including CBTC capabilities... these are things that could probably be accomplished for a quarter of the cost of brand new cars. You could easily get another 20 years out of them. I'm assuming the remainder of the 75' B Division cars are also part of the plan to replace with the R-211... that I'm okay with.
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^ yeah i wonder if they even studied rehab vs all new? :shrug:
*** :uhh: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_0V_...95MTY1M2cyajJ0 |
doa --
Future of Second Avenue Subway expansion in limbo as money fails to materialize following congestion pricing pause By Ben Brachfeld Posted on September 25, 2024 he future expansion of the Second Avenue Subway remains uncertain following the MTA Board’s approval Wednesday of its proposed $68 billion capital plan — which doesn’t include any new money for it — and the pause on congestion pricing that mostly stopped work in its tracks. more: https://www.amny.com/transit/future-...pricing-pause/ https://www.amny.com/wp-content/uplo...-05-144337.png A draft rendering of the planned 125th Street terminal for the Q train, part of Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway project. MTA |
jfk express train to the plane commercial 1978 —
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAQyQ...FiYTUxcGxvenJ6 |
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^ fantastic
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The headline should be the MTA needs $100B to bring it to a state of good repair and another $200B+ to give this alpha city the system it deserves. The paltry amount of expansion the subway has seen in the last 75 years is almost too embarrassing to even mention.
Meanwhile Paris is currently building 125 miles of new electrified metro. |
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