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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMay 9, 2024

New York MTA Reports $300M in Capital Savings

The report comes as the agency prepares to move forward on a major slate of vital capital projects to be funded by congestion pricing.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMay 2, 2024

New York MTA Launches 'Fair Fares' OMNY Pilot

The pilot is scheduled to run for 90 days, which will allow for the agency to collect feedback from participants, evaluate the pilot, and finalize a plan for the full transition to OMNY across all Fair Fares customers at a later date.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 26, 2024

New York MTA Unveils Climate Resilience Roadmap

Developed in response to the demonstrated and urgent need to address climate-related threats, the roadmap underscores the MTA’s commitment to ensure reliability and safety in the transit system for generations of New Yorkers to come.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseApril 16, 2024

New York MTA Unveils First-Ever Electric Paratransit Vehicle

The pilot, which includes 15 Ford electric vans and costs approximately $3 million, will begin making trips throughout the five boroughs today.

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Photo Galleriesby StaffApril 9, 2024

New York MTA Users View the Solar Eclipse

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams had encouraged eclipse viewers to take mass transit to their destinations for safety and congestion relief.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMarch 28, 2024

New York MTA Approves Central Business District Toll Rates

The approved toll rates align with rates recommended by the Traffic Mobility Review Board on Nov. 30, and put forward for public review by the MTA Board on Dec. 6, with a handful of clarifications provided.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMarch 8, 2024

New York Signs ‘Equity in Infrastructure Project’ Pledge

The pledge affirms the MTA will ensure participation on at least $1 billion of work by Minority- and Women-owned or Disadvantaged Business Enterprise firms every year and award larger contracts to small businesses.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMarch 4, 2024

Maryland Updates Purple Line Launch Date

An agreement between MDOT, MTA, and Purple Line Partners will extend the contractual deadline for achieving Revenue Service Availability to Winter 2027.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsFebruary 27, 2024

New York Details Projects at Risk Due to Congestion Pricing Lawsuits

Without the funding Congestion Pricing will provide, the projects to make the transit system safer, more reliable, accessible, and equitable are at risk, according to the MTA.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseFebruary 27, 2024

New York's Paratransit Ridership, On-Time Performance Up in '23

The MTA recently abandoned the industry standard of a 30-minute on time window and adopted the more customer friendly 20 minutes. Even with the smaller window, on-time performance consistently exceeded 90%.

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