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MTA: Subway performance reaches five-year best

Subway trains are running the best they have in a half-decade—though not yet to the standard of New York City Transit President Andy Byford ... MTA CEO and Chairman Patrick Foye credited the improved ... read more

Byford takes helm as New York City Transit's president

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has appointed Andy Byford president of MTA New York City ... transit system in North America. During his TTC tenure, Byford spearheaded a number of ... read more

How the MTA plans to make your subway commute even worse

New York City Transit president Andy Byford outlined the budget-saving moves at a special finance committee hearing before the MTA board, which must formally approve the plan but almost always does. ... read more

MTA to cut bus service on major Manhattan, Brooklyn routes

The potential changes come as the MTA works to overhaul part of its bus network with New York City Transit President Andy Byford’s “Bus Action Plan.” The plan was unveiled in April, but city-wide ... read more

NYC Mayor discusses L train alternatives on subway

On Tuesday, MTA NYC Transit President Andy Byford held an open house in Jamaica, Queens about the subway improvement plan known as Fast Forward. That billion dollar plan will require city, state and ... read more

De Blasio Backs Congestion Pricing In New MTA Overhaul Plan

The long-debated tolling scheme is part of a 10-point plan the mayor and governor unveiled Tuesday to reform ... MTA — questioned whether the increases were necessary. It also comes about nine months ... read more

MTA board will fight for ‘Fast Forward’ subway modernization plan funding

Advocates and MTA board members offered resounding support for NYC Transit President Andy Byford ... to make,” said Byford. “Our plan demonstrates what can be done in a vastly expedited time frame to ... read more

Federal Corporate Tax Cuts Just Gave New Billions to New York Businesses - What About the MTA?

But to pay for the MTA’s current capital plan, and then pay for the new “Fast Forward” plan put forth by MTA New York City Transit President Andy Byford on top of it ... The result of the reform was ... read more

A look at the plan to fix NYC's transit system

"We need to deliver radical reform; mere tweaks to the system will not do," New York City Transit President Andy Byford said April 27 ... "This is a more serious plan to fix the subway than the MTA ... read more

OPINION: Don’t divorce MTA totally from the state

In addition to Cuomo’s and Johnson’s perspectives, there are others who basically agree with reform ... what the MTA itself has to say. In his “Fast Forward: The Plan to Modernize NYC Transit,” Andy ... read more

The case for NYC taking back its subway system

Any hope that the state government will fix the MTA ... reform plan. In the guise of promoting efficiency, it would weaken the last checks on Cuomo’s authority and disempower forward-thinking managers ... read more

Byford pitches three ways to get trains to run on time

Subway employees are doing what they humanly can to make the trains run on time, Andy Byford, president of New York City Transit, said Wednesday ... of new trains compatible with the technology. His ... read more