NY state officials are expected to release the draft scope for the Moynihan Station's environmental impact statement today, which the NY Sun calls the "Spitzer administration's first public display of forward progress" on the project. The redevelopment of Penn Station into a Moynihan Station at the James Farley Post Office building on Eighth Avenue has been in the works for years. In fact, it was October 8 five years ago that the state officially acquired......

NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon has done it again: NY1 reports that Silver has delayed ruling on the Atlantic Yards project because "he still has financial questions." The NY Sun had a story today about growing pressure for Silver to delay the vote, given outcry from not just civic groups like the Municipal Art Society, Regional Plan Association, Citizen's Union, and National Resources Defense Council, but other politicians as well. Brooklyn Papers also adds that......

Attorney General - and frontrunner in the NY State gubernatorial race - Eliot Spitzer laid out his transportation priorities to the Regional Plan Association yesterday, and on the list: the Second Avenue Subway, the LIRR link to Grand Central, and replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge. But he's less enthusiastic about the JFK rail link from downtown Manhattan. Pataki's been hot on the idea of a rail link since 2004. Could it be because the federal......

After his controversial remarks about wanting to get World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein out of the Ground Zero picture, Mayor Bloomberg discussed his ideas for redevelopment at a campagin stop in the Bronx. There should be housing where the Deutsche Bank once stood, and the Port Authority can move to 3 World Trade Center. Obviously he read the Paul Goldberger article in the New Yorker about Ground Zero development earlier this year, too! Of......

A day after the MTA's announcement of unprecedented and, frankly, surprising discounted fares between Thanksgiving and New Year's, the reality has set in. First off, the MTA is really trying to restore its credibility with riders by being nice; a Regional Plan Association spokesperson tells Newsday, "You can't take the politices out of it totally." Second, some critics wonder why the MTA can't put the money ($50 million for holidays discounts this year; another $50......

Timing is everything. As New York City will be celebrating 100 years of our beloved subway system, the MTA is New York Region > In New York Transit Crisis, a Cash Bind Many Foresaw" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/nyregion/25transit.html?ex=1256356800&en=e8688d7a3d7a3062&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland">talking about its budget crisis - one that involves figures like "Budget deficit of $1 billion each year" and "$20 billion of debt by 2008." It's so bad that five subway watchdogs/economic analysts ( Jon Orcutt, executive director of the Tri-State......

Let's go over some of the major money-related MTA stories: - MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow says a Metricard fare hike is necessary. The last we remember, the fare hike would affect discounted Metrocards (yes, your unlimited weekly and monthly cards), but the article says the hike would increase fares by 14%...maybe that's in the discounted card revenue. Anyway, the MTA is still planning for the Second Avenue Subway, East Side Access, and No 7.......

As if there weren't enough disagreements over the West Side stadium, the Regional Plan Association, a private planning organization, released a report yesterday saying that the plan to build a new stadium for the Jets should be scrapped. In its place, the RPA suggested the area should be rezoned for high-rise commercial and residential development. Their report also said that the expansion of the Javits Center should proceed as planned and that the stadium would......

In the midst of the news that the MTA may be considering to raise the fare of discounted MetroCards is a report from the Regional Plan Association, which says the MTA needs billions of dollars it doesn't have to fund everyday maintenance as well as replace and upgrade tracks and equipment. A proposed increase to discounted cards, as well as service cuts, would only give the MTA hundreds of millions of dollars - Lord only......