The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Construction & Development (C&D) launched a beta version of the redesigned Capital Program Dashboard, offering the public an easier and more precise way to track construction projects across the entire transit system — New York City Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, and Bridges and Tunnels. 

The dashboard allows users to monitor progress and see what is being built or replaced, where it is happening, the budget, how much has been spent, and when it will be completed. 

“We are showing our work like no other government agency out there — a testament to the new MTA’s commitment to transparency,” said MTA Chair/CEO Janno Lieber. "With a Capital Plan that prioritizes critical but sometimes hard-to-see infrastructure repairs, it is important that this dashboard highlight the massive number and scale of projects underway across the system.” 

MTA’s Dashboard

First introduced in 2010, the Dashboard has been redeveloped with modern web technologies to reflect better how the MTA is rebuilding and modernizing the transit system — and how the Authority is using smart, innovative construction methods. 

With improved navigation, search fields, and filtering tools, the new dashboard empowers the public to better understand and engage with information about the hundreds of transit construction projects throughout the New York region, including whether the Congestion Relief Zone tolling program funds them, according to the MTA.

The dashboard currently includes all accessibility projects active in construction, projects in the procurement pipeline, and candidate locations for projects in the 2025-2029 Capital Plan. Additional projects and information will be added as C&D continues to refine features and functionality. 

Key Upgrades

Key upgrades to the dashboard include:

• A new “Transit Service” view. This simplifies finding a project by grouping infrastructure projects by the transit routes they affect, and a redesigned map that clearly shows where work is happening across the system. Users can click on a specific line to see the multiple projects that are completed, underway, and planned across the entire route — ranging from accessibility upgrades, Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) installation, state-of-good-repair work, and other station upgrades.

• A new “Initiatives” view. This allows users to see projects categorized by major priorities such as “Accessibility” or “Resilience.” This also includes an initiative around Congestion Relief to allow users to see which projects have been enabled by the Central Business District Tolling Program.

• Real-world projects focused. The updated dashboard shifts the focus from using internal budget codes as the primary reporting structure to a structure that makes more sense to the public — project bundles that better reflect how we actually coordinate construction tasks, contracts, and execute projects.