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Vision 1
One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City
Transportation
Goal: New York City’s transportation network
will be reliable, safe, sustainable, and accessible,
meeting the needs of all New Yorkers and
supporting the city’s growing economy
Overview
Our transportation network is the lifeblood of the city’s neighborhoods and our
economy. Every day the city’s public-transit system enables millions of New Yorkers
to get to work and school, access services and shopping, and enjoy the life of the city.
Throughout its history, New York City’s economic growth has been supported by
investment in its transit system. Despite the importance of the transit network, the
first phase of the Second Avenue Subway—scheduled to open in late 2016—will be the
first major capacity expansion of the system since the late 1930s. Today, a growing
number of subway lines, such as the 4/5/6, are at capacity during peak periods. Transit
hubs serving the region, such as Penn Station (Amtrak/NJT/LIRR) and the Port
Authority Bus Terminal (PABT), are also strained. These capacity issues are not
limited to Manhattan and traditional Central Business Districts. Growth throughout
the five boroughs, both to dispersed centers of employment and communities
experiencing commercial and residential growth, like DUMBO, Williamsburg, and
Long Island City, is creating new challenges, a telling sign of the need for better
service and connections to emerging job clusters throughout the city.
Reliable and convenient transit access to employment and other activities remains
stubbornly out of reach for too many New Yorkers. This problem is particularly
acute for low- and moderate-income residents in areas poorly served by the subway
or buses. For seniors and those with disabilities, this can affect their ability to simply
get groceries, or see family and friends.
For New Yorkers who are active, biking offers a convenient travel option for work
and other trips. As biking creates no carbon emissions, it also supports the City’s
sustainability goals. New York City’s Commuter Cycling Indicator, an indicator
developed by DOT that makes use of the most robust data availalbe to estimate levels
of cycling within the central areas of the city over time, has almost quadrupled since
2000. This growth has been facilitated by a dramatic expansion in the City’s bike
network to 980 lane miles. However, many neighborhoods outside Manhattan and
inner Brooklyn and Queens still lack significant bike infrastructure.
New York’s three main airports—JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty—consistently
rank as the most delay-prone in the nation. During peak hours, the Federal Aviation
Administration caps take-offs and landings in an effort to control delays. Adding to
INDICATORS + TARGETS
Increase overall rail transit
capacity into the Manhattan
Central Business District
between 8-9 am by 20
percent, by 2040
Double the number of
cyclists, tracked by the
NYC In-Season Cycling
Indicator, by 2020
Increase the share of cargo
moved within the region via
rail and water
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this challenge, forecasts show demand at these airports increasing from about 117
million passengers today to 150 million by 2030.
New York City’s freight system also faces significant challenges. Although New York City’s
port and rail connections fueled the city’s rise in the 19
th
and 20
th
centuries, almost all of
the nearly 400 million tons of cargo that enters, leaves, or passes through the city every
year are now transported by truck. This creates a host of challenges, from air quality to
costs for businesses, to security and resiliency, to quality of life concerns for residents.
And those trucks put a tremendous amount of wear and tear on the City’s roads,
which are used by millions of vehicles each day. Our streets, bridges, and highways
are among the oldest in the country and are in need of near constant repair and
rehabilitation. A sustained commitment to maintaining our road network is essential
to supporting the movement of people and good across the five boroughs.
Initiative 1
Support full funding of the MTA capital plan
A modern and reliable regional transit system is essential to New
York’s future growth and realizing the goals of OneNYC. Thus, the
City strongly supports the full funding of the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority’s (MTA) 2015–19 Capital Plan. As the
city’s transit riders, toll payers, and taxpayers already support the
much of the MTA’s operations, we will continue to look to every
level of government to support the modernization and expansion
of New York’s transit system, which is a key economic driver of
the downstate New York region.
The City will also work closely with the MTA to identify
significant savings and improve operational coordination in areas
of common interest, such as bus rapid transit, other bus services,
and Access-a-Ride. Any savings we achieve together can be
leveraged to create new capital support for the MTA.
To support the goals of OneNYC, the City calls for the inclusion of the following
additional capital projects and initiatives in the MTA capital plan:
• The development of a strategy to accelerate the installation of Communica-
tions-Based Train Control (CBTC), a technology that allows the MTA to operate
more frequent service on existing subway lines. CBTC improves safety, expands
capacity, increases reliability, shortens travel times, and enables the installation
of count-down clocks. To keep up with growing ridership on our subways, CBTC
must be more quickly deployed on congested routes
• A study to explore the expansion of the subway system south along Utica Avenue in
Brooklyn, one of the densest areas of the city without direct access to the subway
Subway capacity expansion
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• Entrance upgrades at a number of subway stations in high-growth areas to relieve crowd-
ing and provide access for the disabled beyond those already included in the MTA plan
• A transfer connection at the Livonia Ave/Junius St stations between the L and the
3 lines, which would improve subway options for residents of Canarsie and East
New York
• The development of a strategy to upgrade the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) At-
lantic Branch to subway-like service after the completion of East Side Access—in-
cluding adoption of the subway fare—and a timeline for implementation
• Improvements to the LIRR and Broadway Junction stations and necessary en-
hancements, including streetscaping and pedestrian improvements, to strengthen
connections in a potential high growth area with transit capacity
Initiative 2
Improve existing transit services
Supporting Initiatives
A. Relieve congestion on major subway corridors. In addition to accelerating the
installation of CBTC on key subway lines, as detailed in Initiative 1, the City will
also continue to work with the MTA to move forward on design and construction
of Second Avenue Subway Phase II, and move forward on the planning and
design of Phase III. When completed, these phases will extend the line north to
125th Street and south to Houston Street, dramatically relieving congestion on the
over-crowded 4/5/6 subway lines.
B. Improve and expand bus transit throughout the city
To improve bus service throughout New York City, we will:
• Expand the Select Bus Service (SBS) network to 20 routes citywide by 2017.
The MTA and New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) will signifi-
cantly expand the reach of SBS, bringing faster and more-reliable bus service to tens
of thousands of daily bus riders. The City and the MTA will initiate service on three
new SBS routes in 2015 and five new routes in both 2016 and 2017. The next routes to
launch in 2015 are 86th Street in Manhattan, Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, and Flushing
to Jamaica via Main Street in Queens. The City has also begun work on a transforma-
tive new bus rapid-transit route on Woodhaven Boulevard which will reduce travel
times by 25 to 30 percent for more than 30,000 daily bus riders. The SBS program has
been successful in reducing travel times and increasing ridership.
• Improve local bus service. NYCDOT will work with the MTA to identify key con-
gestion points along busy local bus routes, and to develop and implement solutions.
Over the next four years, the City will address eight of these bus hot spots. The City
will also continue to expand transit signal priority (TSP), a system that improves bus
Select Bus Service
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reliability by giving buses an early green light or extra green time at intersections.
The City will implement two new TSP corridors per year over the next four years (in
addition to the nine corridors already being planned, and three already in operation).
• Increase camera enforcement of bus-lane rules. Bus lanes are an essential tool
for moving buses through congested city streets and getting bus riders where they
need to go more quickly. Effective enforcement of bus lanes requires cameras in
order to keep the lanes free from traffic. The current State legislation authorizing
enforcement of bus-lane rules with cameras expires this year. Working with our
elected representatives in Albany, the City will work to expand use of bus-lane
cameras to keep buses moving and thus provide faster trips for tens of thousands
of New York City bus riders.
• Provide real time bus information to more riders. Working with the MTA, the
City will install 250 real time bus information signs at key SBS and local bus stops
in 2016 and 2017. These displays will provide better information to bus riders,
especially those without smartphones.
C. Leverage the commuter rail system to better serve New York City
communities. The City will work with the MTA to better leverage the commuter
rail system to provide improved transit connections within the city. The City will
continue to support the building of new accessible stations in the Bronx as part of
the Metro-North to Penn Station project, which will bring commuter rail service
to Co-Op City and other Bronx communities currently without rapid transit
access. The City will also work with the MTA on a study of the conversion of the
Atlantic Branch to a more frequent and affordable shuttle service between
Atlantic Terminal and Jamaica, which would provide a new transit option to
residents of Crown Heights, East New York, and Jamaica. Finally, the City will
advocate for changing commuter-rail-fare policy for intra-city trips, including the
expansion of City Ticket, which would make the Long Island Rail Road and
Metro-North an affordable option for travel within the city.
Initiative 3
Plan for major expansions of the transit network
Supporting Initiatives
A. Develop a regional transit strategy to address the growing number of
commuters from west of the Hudson River
Over a quarter of a million workers commute every day from counties in northern
New Jersey to Manhattan—and this number is expected to increase over the
coming decades. The bus and rail infrastructure that handles most of this
commuter load is already at capacity. The City will work with Amtrak, the MTA,
New Jersey Transit, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
(PANYNJ) to develop an integrated strategy to address this challenge, including:
Commuter buses
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Improving Transit Access to Jobs
The initiatives described within this goal will improve existing transit ser-
vice and provide support for major expansions to the transit network. While
increasing access to jobs for all New Yorkers, these improvements will
particularly impact those whose poor access by public transit affects their
economic outcomes.
The neighborhoods highlighted in the above map are those in which me-
dian household income for a family of four is below the citywide average
of $52,259 and access by public transit to jobs is comparatively poor. Many
workers in these communities do not have access to a car and rely exclusive-
ly on mass transit to get to work.
To improve access to employment in these priority areas, the City will im-
plement a program of public transit and bike improvements, including new
Select Bus Service (SBS) routes and expanded ferry service. The City will
also work with the MTA to improve and expand the transit network. These
initiatives are described in more detail in Initiatives 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this goal.
Including existing SBS routes, these projects will improve transit service in
25 priority communities, contributing to the target of providing 90 percent of
New Yorkers with access to more than 200,000 jobs by transit in 45 minutes.
1 NYC median income is $52,259 (2013)
2 Weighted average jobs accessible via transit within 45 minutes
5-Year Estimates, Economic Opportunity and
New York City Neighborhoods
NYU Rudin Center Analysis
Below Average Job Access and Income1,2
Potential Rail Corridors/Stops
Existing SBS Corridors
Planned SBS Corridors
Existing Ferry Network
Proposed Ferry Network/Stops
Potential Subway Expansion
Priority Subway Signal Enhancements
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