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Four Decades of the Straphangers Campaign
Honoring Gene Russianoff and the Campaign's change-making transit advocacy
RSVP today!- Wednesday, November 15, 2017
- 6:00 to 8:30 PM
- The Wooly Public, 9 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10007 (in the landmark Woolworth Building)
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In the News
Accessibility for disabled riders a huge problem on the subways, advocates say (NY1, September 29, 2017)
Informed Archives: The Straphangers Campaign and the NYC Subway System (The New York Public Library Blog, August 29, 2017)
Transit advocates fume over 'Cuomo Tax' to fund nuke plants (New York Post, August 26, 2017)
Assembly members call for bus service improvements (Times-Ledger, August 25, 2017)
Pols to MTA: Don\'t forget the buses (Queens Chronicle, August 24, 2017)
New York's Oldest Subway Cars, Beautiful Symbols of a Sad Decline (The New Yorker, August 21, 2017)
Transit Advocates Say NYC's Missing Out on a "Quick Win" With Buses (Next City, August 17, 2017)
Cuomo considering congestion pricing (Queens Chronicle, August 17, 2017)
MTA, DOT efforts to improve bus service receive poor marks from advocates (Curbed New York, August 15, 2017)
Advocacy groups rate MTA, DOT poorly in new quality report (Bronx News 12, August 14, 2017)
Cuomo Takes Charge And Goes Down Into The Subway To Point At Problems (Gothamist, August 10, 2017)
Elected officials to ride subways for 24 hours (Amsterdam News, August 3, 2017)
NYC Lawmakers Embark On 24-Hour Riders Respond Transit Tour (CBS Channel 2, August 3, 2017)
MTA boss rolls out more than $800M plan to revive degrading subway system that targets faulty signals, bad tracks (Daily News, July 26, 2017)
MTA releases Joe Lhota's reorganization plan to fix subway (AM New York, July 25, 2017)
MTA's fix for overcrowded subways - tear out the seats (New York Post, July 25, 2017)
MTA unveils multibillion-dollar plan to save the subways (NY 1, July 25, 2017)
$800 Million Subway Rescue Plan Adds Cars and Subtracts Seats (The New York Times, July 25, 2017)
City releases its own subway turnaround plan ahead of MTA's (AM New York, July 24, 2017)
MTA subway riders call for end to endless delays and dysfunction (WABC Channel 7, July 24, 2017)
Public Statements
Statement on Newly Appointed MTA Chair/CEO Joseph Lhota (June 22, 2017)
Statement on MTA Management Restructuring Plan (May 15, 2017)
Statement on Governor's Plan to Cut $65 Million in Promised Funds to the MTA (February 21, 2017)
Statement on the MTA’s Fare Increase Proposal (November 16, 2016)
Comment on MTA Five-Year Capital Program Proposal (July 23, 2015)
Statement on Record Ridership (April 20, 2015)
Statement on MTA Capital Funding (March 25, 2015)
Response to MTA's Statement on 2014 Subway Report Card (July 31, 2014(PDF))
New York City Transit Fare Facts (July 2014)
Group Statement on Scoping of Proposed Rezoning of the Vanderbilt Avenue Corridor (July 16, 2014)
Statement on Appointment of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg to MTA Board of Directors (June 20, 2014)
Statement on Mayor de Blasio's East Midtown Zoning Proposal (May 30, 2014)
Statement on Mayor de Blasios First 100 Days on Public Transportation (April 29,2014)
