Transportation News

City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announces new program for Deliveristas to trade in their e-bikes for city-approved ones, June 12, 2025.

E-Bike ExChange: City Offering New Rides and Batteries for Bad Ones

June 12, 2025, 2:55 p.m.June 12, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

Transportation and fire officials were on hand for the launch of the program in Washington Heights Thursday. The FDNY commissioner said it was “like trading in a Kia for a Mercedes.”

Transit

MTA Approves Millions More for OMNY Chatbot in Buggy System

May 28, 2025, 4:50 p.m.May 28, 2025, 4:50 p.m.

As complaints mount about the new tap-and-go cards for buses and subways, transit officials have approved $13 million extra for AI help services — on top of a nearly $600 million original contract.

Drivers head under congestion pricing scanners after exiting the Lincoln Tunnel.

Transportation

Federal Judge Says Trump Can’t Retaliate Against Congestion Pricing

May 27, 2025, 2:53 p.m.May 27, 2025, 5:42 p.m.

Allowing Washington to punish New York for its local transit policy would be a threat to “the rule of law in this country,” said Judge Lewis Liman.

Drivers under the south side of the Shea Road under near the Grand Central Parkway ramp in Flushing.

Infrastructure

Are You Traveling Over Troubled NYC Bridges?

May 20, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 21, 2025, 10:33 a.m.

Some 118 sections of local spans of all types were found by inspectors to be in poor condition in 2024, records show. See how the bridges you use fared.

City Hall

How an Indicted Tow Trucker Gained Entree to the Top of the Adams istration

April 15, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 14, 2025, 5:55 p.m.

Mike Mazzio helped raise nearly $400,000 for Adams’ 2021 campaign and hired the mayor’s former state Senate colleague Jeff Klein as his lobbyist — all while facing charges for illegally rigging the industry.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy spoke to the press after riding the subway with Mayor Eric Adams, April 4, 2025.

Transit

Mayor Adams and Secretary Duffy Dodge MTA Brass for Subway Photo-Op

April 4, 2025, 4:27 p.m.April 4, 2025, 8:19 p.m.

Mayor Eric Adams and federal transportation Secretary Sean Duffy rode the rails together on Friday but didn’t let local transit officials or press know. The DOT head threatened to have DOGE look at the MTA's books.

Trucks were parked longterm along Rockaway Boulevard near JFK Airport.

Streets

Truck-Parking Pilot Excludes City’s Most Impacted Areas, Including Southeast Queens

March 27, 2025, 8:17 p.m.April 4, 2025, 3:32 p.m.

Residents there say they’ve seen more illegally parked tractor trailers in recent years that compromise street safety and hurt businesses.

MTA Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper speaks at an agency board meeting in Lower Manhattan.

Subway

‘Not a Game’: MTA Brass Counter Trump Insults and Threats With Facts and Figures

March 26, 2025, 5:38 p.m.March 26, 2025, 5:59 p.m.

Using a “professional, fact-based approach,” transit officials highlighted that felonies in the subway system last year were down — while acknowledging that assaults have risen in the past six years.

Commuters packed onto an A train during the morning commute.

Transit

Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief

March 24, 2025, 4:00 p.m.April 4, 2025, 3:26 p.m.

One transit authority board member called Sean Duffy’s comments “a real slap in the face” as the MTA tries to get back on track.

An MTA police officer watches people enter a turnstile at Penn Station.

Transit

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

March 19, 2025, 1:29 p.m.March 19, 2025, 8:56 p.m.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said the feds will cut funding to New York City Transit if they don’t get information on how New York will reduce subway crime.

Transportation

E-Bike ExChange: City Offering New Rides and Batteries for Bad Ones

MTA Approves Millions More for OMNY Chatbot in Buggy System

Federal Judge Says Trump Can’t Retaliate Against Congestion Pricing

Are You Traveling Over Troubled NYC Bridges?

How an Indicted Tow Trucker Gained Entree to the Top of the Adams istration

Mayor Adams and Secretary Duffy Dodge MTA Brass for Subway Photo-Op

Truck-Parking Pilot Excludes City’s Most Impacted Areas, Including Southeast Queens

‘Not a Game’: MTA Brass Counter Trump Insults and Threats With Facts and Figures

Crime Down and Tolls Working, MTA Fires Back After ‘Shithole’ Jab From Trump DOT Chief

Latest Trump Threats to MTA Are More About Politics Than Safety, Transit Advocates Say

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