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The official voice for @mta.info riders 🚇🚍🚈 Established in 1981, our legislative mandate is to advocate for subway, bus, @mtalirr.bsky.social, @mtametronorth.bsky.social, and SIR riders.

A new map of the NYC subway
PCAC Advocacy Manager Kara Gurl speaks in front of City Hall
Advocates stand on the City Hall steps calling for expansion of the Fair Fares program
Speaker Adams speaks at a podium
People stand and clap at the MTA Board meeting in Grand Central Madison
Senator Comrie and Assembly Members Alvarez. Kassay, and Simone pose for a photo
Chart of trip times across river crossings into the CBD
FARE THEE WELL: Two dozen state lawmakers, Rep. Jerry Nadler, the New York City comptroller and the borough presidents of Queens and Manhattan are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to correct “glaring inequities” in MTA fares. A Thursday letter, organized by the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, urges Hochul to put money in the state budget to increase discounts for more New Yorkers close to the poverty line and provide lower fares for seniors, kids and people traveling on commuter rail within New York City. “As our state grapples with a cost-of-living crisis, public transit — especially New York’s subways, buses and commuter rail lines — remain a lifeline of affordability,” the letter says. “With the recent launch of congestion pricing and the MTA’s planned fare increases going into effect later next year, the need for ‘carrots’ — fare incentives — to keep costs down for New Yorkers has never been greater.” — Ry Rivard
Elected officials and MTA leadership stand behind a podium in front of new electric buses
Billboard reading “New York: safer streets, faster commutes, and cleaner air start now. All thanks to congestion pricing.”
IN: 🌤️ Congestion pricing (finally!) 🤑 Saving riders money w/ new fare incentives ✅ Fully funding the MTA Capital Plan 🗳️ Voting Rider Reps on the MTA Board 🔄 Integrating our region’s transit systems 🏘️ Housing near transit 🚍 Bus lanes OUT: 😇 Bad-faith congestion pricing arguments ✈️ Overpriced AirTrain fares ↘️ Transit disinvestment 🚂 Ancient rolling stock 🚦Depression-era train signals 🙅 NIMBYism 🐓 Buses that are slower than a chicken
NYC Transit Riders Council member Trudy L. Mason poses with laborers in front of a newly completed elevator
Riders rally in front of Atlantic Terminal
LIRR President Rob Free, PCAC Executive Director Lisa Daglian, and Suffolk County Transit and NICE Bus leadership sit on a panel together
A full-page ad thanking Governor Hochul for reinstating congestion pricing.