MTA Halts Second Avenue Subway Extension After Toll Pause
- Transit agency to shelve $16.5 billion of capital improvements
- MTA forced to delay $3 billion of state-of-good-repair work
Commuters arrive to the Second Avenue subway line in New York.
Photographer: John Taggart/BloombergThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to defer $16.5 billion worth of capital upgrades to modernize New York City’s aging transit system — including extending the Second Avenue subway to Harlem — after Governor Kathy Hochul paused a congestion pricing plan that would have funded such projects.
The MTA, the largest public transportation provider in the US, runs the city’s subways, buses and commuter rails. It must now slash its multi-year $51.5 billion capital program after suspending the tolling initiative blew a $15 billion hole in that spending plan.