Caroline Spivack

Reporter at Crain's New York Business

Reporter covering transportation/climate change at @CrainsNewYork | 📩 [email protected] | @Columbiajourn alum

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Newark airport still suffering major delays. Here’s why

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

The skies over Newark Liberty International Airport Monday have been a congested mess, continuing last week’s widespread cancellations and delays. A persistent shortage of air traffic controllers to guide planes paired with reduced visibility thanks to thick fog are delaying arriving flights Monday by an average of four hours. Departures are seeing up to a half-an-hour delay due to a backup of flights on the airport’s two runways — a third is out of commission until mid-June for repaving.
World Trade Center director works to make the commuter hub a community destination

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

Jolene Yates can pinpoint the moment she began to fall in love with transportation. As a 5-year-old, she was wonderstruck by the cutting-edge tech at the 1986 world’s fair that her family visited in Vancouver, the city where she grew up. The expo featured a sleek, fully-automated elevated rail system that became the basis of Vancouver’s iconic SkyTrain. “It felt so new age-y,” said Yates, 44.
United to cut Newark operations as FAA issues snarl flights

1 week ago | chicagobusiness.com | Caroline Spivack

United Airlines Holdings Inc. will cut 35 daily round trips at Newark Liberty International Airport after Federal Aviation Administration technology failures and an air traffic controller shortage snarled flights for a full week. The “long-simmering FAA challenges boiled over this week,” United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby said in a letter to customers Friday, resulting in cancellations, delays and stranded passengers. United will begin eliminating the flights this weekend, Kirby said.
Staff shortage, runway repairs ground flights at Newark airport

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

Fliers are dealing with widespread cancellations and delays at Newark Liberty International Airport Friday, as the terminal grapples with a shortage of air traffic controllers, equipment issues and repair work on a runway that’s led to bottlenecks for flights.
Amtrak accuses MTA of spreading ‘misinformation’ on East River tunnel reconstruction

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

Amtrak’s president is accusing New York state and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials of spreading “misinformation and misleading facts” about the rail agency’s $1.6 billion plan to shutter one of four East River tunnels for repairs over the next four years.
MTA plans to test four new styles of subway gates at 20 stations

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

The MTA will outfit 20 subway stations this fall with sleek new fare gates designed to keep people out who shirk the system’s $2.90 fee while making it easier for passengers with wheelchairs, strollers and luggage. Transit officials will pilot four types of wider fare gates, all of which feature barriers that horizontally open and close and are difficult to force open or scale over.
State to launch homeless outreach centers in subway stations

1 week ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

Gov. Kathy Hochul is launching what she described Thursday as a network of 24/7 “welcome centers” in the city’s subway, where health professionals and social workers will connect homeless New Yorkers with shelter options and supportive services. The governor’s office told Crain’s that the state will launch up to five facilities in subway stations to help people who are struggling with mental health issues and who are bedding down in the system to access treatment and shelter.
MTA will get $68B in state budget, thanks in part to business tax increase

2 weeks ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

The state budget will kick in $68.4 billion to the MTA over the next five years to prevent the subway, buses and commuter rail that the city’s workers rely on from falling into disrepair. State lawmakers agreed to fund the plan — the MTA’s largest ever package of mass transit upgrades — in part through an increase to the current 0.60% payroll mobility tax on certain large businesses.
Questions swirl around Amtrak takeover of Penn Station redevelopment

2 weeks ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

The Trump administration has passed the reins of Penn Station’s long-anticipated redevelopment to Amtrak, ostensibly sidelining the MTA for a more cost-effective project. But transit experts who note the embattled rail agency has its own troubles with delivering projects on time and on budget say the shift could be an attempt at slow rolling the project.
Newark airport delays linger amid air traffic controller shortage, tech malfunction

2 weeks ago | crainsnewyork.com | Caroline Spivack

Fliers are dealing with residual delays for flights at Newark Liberty International Airport after a Monday air traffic equipment malfunction and controller staff storage snarled flights. Problems with telecommunication and radar equipment at the Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control in Pennsylvania, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark airport, heavily delayed flights Monday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.