The MTA proposed allocating over $2 billion to pay for the first steps needed to build the Interborough Express, a 14-mile light rail that would connect Queens to Brooklyn.
Read MoreElected officials in Northeastern Queens railed against a relatively new city-backed program that brought shared electric scooters to their neighborhoods, many of which lack robust access to public transportation.
Read MoreAn overwhelming number of Central Queens residents support a transportation initiative that has been all but cast aside by the Adams administration, according to a new poll from a local elected official.
Read MoreA little more than two years after Governor Kathy Hochul first introduced plans to build the Interborough Express, the future of her ambitious plan to build the much-needed public transit option for Queens and Brooklyn residents appears to be uncertain, almost entirely as a result of the governor's own 11th-hour pause on the implementation of the MTA’s congestion pricing plan.
Read MoreThis week, the MTA voted unanimously to increase the price of a trip on a city subway or bus from $2.75 to $2.90.
Read MoreA Queens lawmaker says she has a solution for the congestion caused by city buses in Downtown Flushing.
Read MoreThe City Council voted on Thursday to approve a handful of bills, including one that would require the Department of Transportation to bring “daylighting” to 100 street intersections per year, starting in 2025.
Read MoreThe Long Island Railroad says that service changes are coming to Queens stations in Kew Gardens and Forest Hills after four electeds complained that recent train schedule changes have made their constituents’ commutes tougher.
Read MoreNearly a year after it began, the review of the proposed LaGuardia Airport AirTrain project has been completed – and there will likely be no AirTrain to Queens’ northern airport.
Read More“I’m happy that they came out to support,” said Tsering Wangdu, whose 7-year-old daughter was recently fatally struck by a driver in Astoria. “In the park, we are like a family.”
Read MoreAbout a year ago, the Port Authority put the controversial plan to build an AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport on pause and launched a review of a number of alternate public transit options to the northwest Queens airport. But what ever happened to that review?
Read MoreShould a rotting rail line snaking through Central and South Queens be resurrected as a park or a new subway line? Queens has its answer – for now.
Read MoreA new elevator is coming to the Queensboro Plaza subway station after a private developer received city approval to build the accessibility upgrade in exchange for the right to build more stories in a nearby residential development last week.
Read MoreThe NYC Ferry Forward plan is intended to expand access and encourage increased ridership through reduced fare programs.
Read MoreAfter recently securing the funding needed for the largest component of the rebuild John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Port Authority will begin construction on Terminal One this summer.
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