Nolan Hicks

If there's one city that gave New York the courage to consider congestion pricing — the $15 charge to drive into Manhattan, now “indefinitely

When major construction on the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel gets underway this year, it will eventually double the number of tracks running under the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey.

They’re taking a huge bite out of the MTA’s budget.

After learning of his indictment on bribery and fraud charges on Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams quietly signed off on paperwork that hints at how worried

We need a second span out in Jersey, and nobody’s funded it yet.

The reliably unreliable commuter system is 16 times more likely to face breakdowns than Metro-North is.

When Kathy Hochul put congestion pricing on ice last June, she insisted that it was a pause—that the $15 Manhattan toll on drivers could be reactivated at will.

Trying to make sense of Kathy Hochul’s mess.

New trains make it much harder to climb out and up, and that’s yet another reason to upgrade.

congestion pricing Jersey pols have spent big and talked big on their anti-congestion pricing efforts as their own transit agency has fallen into disrepair. Nolan Hicks covered transportation, housing, public health and city agencies in the City Hall bureau for The New York Post from 2018-2024, most recently as the paper's Senior Reporter for City Affairs. He previously worked as a City Hall and general assignments at The Austin American-Statesman from 2016-2018, where he uncovered self-dealing by a top aide to the city's then-mayor that resulted in a federal investigation and guilty pleas. Before that, he was a reporter at the New York Daily News and the San Antonio Express-News. He joined Streetsblog in January 2025. Read More: More from Streetsblog New York City Congestion Pricing Gets Kids To School On Time, Data Shows Data shared with Streetsblog shows school buses traveling faster and being late less since congestion pricing began. January 17, 2025 Friday's Headlines: Fun in the Sun Edition The mayor is going down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Trump, eh? Plus other news. January 17, 2025 Mayor Adams Proposes $4M Per Year to ‘Harden' Dangerous Intersections "We are... keeping New Yorkers safe on our streets and in our waters by improving road safety at hundreds of targeted traffic intersections," Adams said on Thursday. January 17, 2025 Daylight Every Corner to Speed Up DOT Safety Projects that Repurpose Curb Space Daylighting every intersection would make it easier to accomplish the Department of Transportation's policy goals. It's a wonder the agency won't support it. January 17, 2025 See all posts