# Fixing the MTA

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2018-12-20

mobility, mta, new-york-city, subway, taxi, transit, transport, transportation, uncategorized, urbanism

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Fred Wilson wrote a great post on his blog today about New York City’s “[transit mess](https://avc.com/2018/12/the-nyc-transit-mess/).” 

In it he talks about congestion pricing (which, as you all know, I support); the mess that is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA); and [this 37-page report](https://pfnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-Metropolitan-Transportation-Sustainability-Advisory-Workgroup-Report.pdf) on how to improve the MTA.

Here is an excerpt from his post that I liked, but that won’t be popular with everyone:

> _That is an idea \[congestion pricing\] that has been proposed a number of times over the years, most notably by Mayor Bloomberg during his tenure. It is a good idea and long overdue._ **_A dense urban environment should have excellent mass transit and incentives to use it and should have disincentives to drive cars._** _Taxing cars in Manhattan and using the revenues to maintain and improve our subways seems like an obvious thing to do._  

I would encourage you to [give his post a read](https://avc.com/2018/12/the-nyc-transit-mess/). The New York Times also reported on this topic (and the above recommendations) this week. They called it, [_7 ways to fix the MTA (which needs a $60 billion overhaul)._](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/nyregion/mta-report-congestion-pricing.html)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/fixing-the-mta)*