See what earns a 👍️ / 👎️ / 😐️ in our take on New York's FY27 One-House budgets: buff.ly/N9hnfUq
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See what earns a 👍️ / 👎️ / 😐️ in our take on New York's FY27 One-House budgets: buff.ly/N9hnfUq
Finally a reprieve from the constant terrible news at the federal level. This is great news for congestion pricing and NYC.
Actually committed means that the MTA is in contract to pay it. So slightly different. The MTA bonded for that $5B and entered into contracts with vendors up to that value.
See also here - www.mta.info/document/199...
I mean *2025 was their best year ever!
Good factoid from the MTA board meeting today - $5B of the $15B in commitments for capital projects in 2025 came from congestion pricing revenues. That's huge - 2024 was their biggest year ever and shows how important CP is as a revenue stream.
We've put together some Key Resources on Amtrak's "New York Penn Station Transformation Project," including answers provided by Amtrak to our questions about the project.
Check it out - we will keep updating it as we learn more:
NEW: "Listening to FOIL 2026" report shows big gaps between best/worst 11 agencies.
We analyzed 16k records requests to evaluate response times, backlogs & more.
Agencies aren't publishing commonly requested requested or using electronic appeals features of FOIL software buff.ly/y0UrfBz
Check out Reinvent Albany's list of 10 things Mayor Mamdani can do to strengthen transparency, ethics, and democracy:
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Take note reporter friends - more lame duck Adams admin shenanigans, this time on press credentials 🤦♀️
Chapter amendments aren't usually available until they are introduced as a bill the next year. But from what we have heard they would scale back some of the more open-ended language like "providing service." But devil is in the details so withholding judgment until we read it.
Reinvent Albany @cbcny.bsky.social @partnership4nyc.bsky.social @rpa.org and Transit Costs Project thank @governor.ny.gov for vetoing A4873/S4091, the bill that would have prohibited MTA from using one-person train operation (OPTO). See our statement: buff.ly/PI2zEAH
Pretty proud of this report + working with an awesome team to make a searchable database of NYS Senate votes. Hopefully we will get ourselves out of a job on this one and the Senate will start publishing the votes online.
Gov Hochul should veto S6815/A8292 – giving MTA workers an automatic defense for bus-lane violations meddles in NYC and MTA management and could encourage misuse of agency vehicles.
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Bus riders in the Bronx deserve faster rides. Gov Hochul should indeed veto this bill.
👏👏👏 I've been advocating for a new MTA capital dashboard since 2018 (!) so very happy to see the MTA finally build a new, better dashboard.
SO happy this passed, and with nearly all the good stuff still in there!
Let's GOOO! Now it's up for Adams to sign, and the Mamdani admin to implement it.
Looks like I will soon have 2 transparency babies to tend. MTA Open Data + NYC FOIL reporting
Happy to be back testifying to MTA Board about OPTO! Let's GO Hochul and VETO this bill.
Thanks to @stefanoschen.bsky.social and @nytimes.com for picking up our report on global transit operations. It’s clear that the rest of the world has moved toward more automated and leaner operations without the sky falling. Legislating ops from Albany is overreach:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
But if the bill is passed, the M.T.A. would be prohibited from shifting to one-person operation on those and other trains, said Rachael Fauss, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany, a good governance group.
“It’s kind of flushing the benefits of C.B.T.C. down the toilet,” she said.
Does the subway still need conductors? Much of the world say no, but union leaders say it's a safety issue. Gov. Hochul has to decide by year end whether to sign a bill that would mandate two-person train crews, even on lines that already moved to one operator www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
We dropped a new report re: train operations, everyone’s favorite topic. There’s some backstory that we will get too. But, the basic takeaway is modern train systems have moved away from two-person train ops. New York should, too! transitcosts.com/Train_Operat...
Super interesting for us election reform enthusiasts...have been waiting to see the local breakdown!
Our friends at @citizensunionny.bsky.social are hosting a public Q&A on NYC ballot question 6 (even-year elections) this Thurs, 10/30, from 6-7pm. Register for their webinar!
NEW report with scrutinize, "Backdoor to the Bench", finds NY’s constitutional cap on the number of Supreme Court judges spawns double dysfunction
Clogged courts resort to secretive, highly subjective selection of acting judges as workaround
🚨Transparency Boosting Bill on Hochul's Desk🚨
S2520-B/A3425-A by @jamesskoufis.bsky.social and Steven Raga is the most significant improvement to the Freedom of Information Law in years & would shorten the time the public waits for records. Governor Hochul should sign it.
This might have been my favorite part to write in this report. 🦮
It is truly cutting off one's nose to spite one's face to defund infrastructure projects in NY.