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The governor is renewing plans to start the tolling program, but at discounted rates. Ms. Hochul said it will generate $15 billion for mass transit. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday [...]

Transit leaders proposed a plan on Wednesday to spend more than $65 billion to upgrade New York City's subway and bus system. Whether they will be able to fully fund [...]

Janno Lieber said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was reining in its ambitions after Gov. Kathy Hochul moved to halt congestion pricing. The chief executive of the state agency that runs [...]

Janno Lieber said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was reining in its ambitions after Gov. Kathy Hochul moved to halt congestion pricing. The chief executive of the state agency that runs [...]

The tolling program aimed to diminish traffic while raising money for mass transit. For decades, New York lawmakers, transit officials and environmental activists have been pushing to implement a plan [...]

On Wednesday, New York may finally become the first city in the nation to adopt congestion pricing, a plan to get cars and trucks off city streets and raise funds [...]

On Wednesday, New York may finally become the first city in the nation to adopt congestion pricing, a plan to get cars and trucks off city streets and raise funds [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul would not say how long she planned to keep hundreds of soldiers and state police officers in the subway system. Soon after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul would not say how long she planned to keep hundreds of soldiers and state police officers in the subway system. Soon after Gov. Kathy Hochul https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html hundreds [...]

The first peek at pricing details in New York's plan to add tolls for drivers entering Manhattan's busiest streets drew strong responses in New Jersey. The mayor of Fort Lee, [...]

The first peek at pricing details in New York’s plan to add tolls for drivers entering Manhattan’s busiest streets drew strong responses in New Jersey. The mayor of Fort Lee, [...]

The program, which could begin next year, would charge drivers to enter Midtown Manhattan, with the revenues going to improve mass transit. Congestion pricing in New York City has cleared [...]

The money, which was previously allocated in the infrastructure bill, will go to the Second Avenue Subway extension and new Hudson River train tunnels, two of the most long-awaited transit [...]

A new 14-mile transit line, which would not run into Manhattan, would fill a significant gap in New York's transportation system. When Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her first State of [...]

With coronavirus cases surging in New York, about 21 percent of subway operators and conductors were absent this week, causing suspensions on three lines and changed schedules on others. As [...]

The cash-strapped agency is delaying the increase amid pressure from advocates and elected officials who say the change would hurt essential and low-wage workers. New York City's transit agency has [...]

BERLIN -- In Germany, women are paid an average of 21 percent less than men, one of Europe's widest gender pay gaps. In Berlin next week, for one day only, [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board voted on Wednesday to raise fares for New York [...]

Taking aim at the everyday tribulations and injustices of life in the United States, Mayor Bill de Blasio used his sixth State of the City speech to present his tenure [...]

In public transit stations from London to New York you often hear the sound of gentle classical music -- some Mozart perhaps, maybe some Bach. It's piped in as an [...]

New York City leaders have reached an agreement in principle to provide reduced-fare MetroCards to low-income subway and bus riders, according to three people briefed on the discussion. Under the [...]

A sweeping proposal to overhaul New York City's subway and improve the broader transit system is expected to cost more than $19 billion, according to two people who were briefed [...]

First there were little paper tickets that cost a nickel. Then there was the nickel itself, because until just after World War II, a nickel was the only thing that [...]

After 25 years of talk about turning the main post office in Manhattan into an extension of Pennsylvania Station, construction toward that ambitious and expensive goal is about to get [...]

The City Council of New York spoke to an urgent problem with its recent proposal to subsidize transit fares for low-income workers who now must choose between putting food on [...]

President Trump promised in his inaugural address to invest in ''new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation.'' We asked readers [...]

Imagine your subway train is pulling up to the platform, its wider doors easing the claustrophobic dance between riders struggling to alight as others board. Once inside, you are able [...]

A proposal to bring the F express train back to Brooklyn after nearly three decades set off a storm of debate last week, dividing the borough into commuting winners and [...]

In November 2014, the Sunday Metropolitan section published an article about a man named Jim Venturi and his audacious plan to overhaul transit in New York. His ideas were big [...]

It is a frustrating conundrum of commuting in the boroughs of New York City outside Manhattan: A destination in Brooklyn or Queens might be just a few miles away, but [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to build a streetcar line connecting 16 miles of neighborhoods along the booming East River waterfront of Brooklyn and Queens presents an eye-catching, ambitious exercise [...]

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. -- The view from the 15th floor of the Eight Tower Bridge office building here looks over two interstate highways, a commuter rail line, an old warehouse and [...]

Getting to La Guardia Airport by public transportation has never been a picnic. The local subway station is three miles away, and the bus from it to the airport takes [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The women shuffle back and forth as they wait just after 7 a.m. for the orange bus crawling down the street. It will be more than an [...]

New York City Transit is looking for a way to bring some of its older subway cars into the digital age. The upgrade, if put into effect, would bring automated [...]

LOS ANGELES -- This auto-obsessed city -- a place where people love their cars almost as much as they hate the traffic -- has embarked on the biggest expansion of [...]

Wondering why the city's cab-sharing experiment fizzled last week? A few Upper East Side residents offered a theory: location, location, location. The Taxi and Limousine Commission -- which, we should [...]

The new chairman of New York's transit system is looking to introduce a pricing policy that would offer passengers discounts to ride late at night and on weekends, an abrupt […]

It could wind up spending nearly 10 times as much money on transportation projects as the federal stimulus bill, but outside of Washington, where it has prompted a frenzy of […]

In a city where riding the bus is often a slow-speed alternative to walking, the phrase 'bus rapid transit' may seem hard to fathom. But that is the name -- […]

A plan by Madrid to turn the Paseo del Prado, the leafy but traffic-choked boulevard lined with museums, into a pedestrian-friendly ''art walk'' has angered Carmen Cervera, the Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza, [...]

Mass transit systems get tougher to build as cities age and grow, planners say. But as the Denver metropolitan area begins work on one of the most ambitious urban transportation […]

When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said last week that he would not get involved in the dispute between striking bus company workers and their private employers, he was not simply […]

IT lasted 32 days and left half a million people stranded without their usual means of transportation. Maids and nannies struggled to find new ways from East Los Angeles to […]

Warning that a walkout by 33,000 subway and bus workers was 'very possible' next week, city officials yesterday released parts of a 61-page emergency plan that would ban cars with […]

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman outlined a $30 billion transportation plan today, a mix of new and existing initiatives with a focus on expanding mass transit and repairing bridges and highways. […]

Concerned that people are figuring out how to alter their Metrocards to get free rides, transit officials said yesterday that they would reprogram all 3,000-plus subway turnstiles by next week. […]