The Grand Penn proposal would move Madison Square Garden across Seventh Avenue, onto or near the former Hotel Pennsylvania site, and use the freed-up space above Penn Station to build a much grander, roomier train hall.
"This project is symbolic of what we've done over the last 12 years, reshaping the streets and the city," Christophe Najovski, the city's deputy mayor in charge of green spaces, stated during the opening ceremony.
We already pay the bulk of the TriMet operating budget through (mostly employment) taxes (49%), federal operating grants (13%), state and local revenue (8%). That's a total of 70% that everybody has already paid—even folks who aren't passengers. Passenger revenue only covers 6% of the TriMet budget.
Missouri is the most populous state without a statewide active transportation plan, despite nearly one-third of its residents lacking a driver's license and alarming fatality rates among vulnerable road users.
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber on Tuesday responded to social media videos of straphangers either getting their limbs or belongings stuck in prototype fare gates the agency is testing at several subway stations. Lieber, during a Jan. 6 Pix11 interview, addressed clips of subway riders getting ensnared in the new gates most notably a 5-year-old girl who wound up in the hospital after her head got caught in one of them.
