The MTA is gearing up a plan to improve bike and pedestrian access to its mass transit system and bridges.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will release its so-called Bike, Pedestrian, and Micromobility Strategic Action Plan sometime this year after long resisting calls from advocates to open its bridges to New Yorkers who aren’t behind the wheel.
“We want to improve customer access to our environmentally friendly MTA services, however they get to their train or bus,” MTA Chairperson and CEO Janno Lieber said in a statement. “As a cyclist myself, I know that biking can be the perfect complement to mass transit.”
The state agency hired Sam Schwartz Engineering to consult on the project, which officials say will work toward better access to transit stations for bikes, pedestrians, and micro-mobility like e-scooters; integrating bike sharing services, and improving access to the infrastructure controlled by MTA’s Bridges and Tunnels division.
The Authority is also looking for written public comment on the project’s website.
The MTA is required by law to come up with the plan under legislation signed by Governor Kathy Hochul in late December, and one of the bill’s sponsors said it was time for the region’s main transportation agency to meet the growing demand for travel that isn’t dependent on cars.
“Expanding access for cyclists and pedestrians on MTA bridges, stations, buses, and trains will help us meet the growing demand of New Yorkers who are choosing sustainable forms of transportation,” said Bronx state Senator Alessandra Biaggi.
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Does Sam Schwartz commute by bicycle? I've yet to see a photo of him with a helmet on his head.
Will the transportation alternatives freaks be required to pay the same exorbitant tolls motorists are required to pay, or is this another "Green Boondoggle"
Jesus they get away with so much in this town and they're almost invisible.
Electurds focusing on the future of more Crap paid for by the tax payer !
No one is safe above or below ground in NYC. Refund the police and vote for strong justice.
Great news.
Thanks!
I'm all for this as long as it doesn't take away lanes from cars. I've always wanted to walk the Whitestone and Throggs Neck bridges in the same way you can walk the East River bridges.
Adolf from TA will be riding for free on taxpayers' dime.
@“ Will the transportation alternatives freaks be required to pay the same exorbitant tolls motorists are required to pay”
Says another free loading car totalitarian.
"The MTA is gearing up a plan" LOL...
They can't even get the fare collected on the trains and buses.
Fare-beaters account for 38.5% of all bus riders.
Fare-beaters skipping the fee on the subway is 19.5% and rising.
That’s on "track" for over half a billion dollars in losses for the year 2022.
Let's not forget the tolls not being collected beause of fake/bent/covered plates.
Good job NYC/NYS DemOrats...
First get the subway cameras working and make the subways safe for straphangers.
Prove Me Wrong ...
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