Winnie Hu
Reporter at The New York Times
New York Times reporter covering how New York City works. Transportation, infrastructure, crowding, education. [email protected]
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2 days ago |
nytimes.com | Stefanos Chen |Winnie Hu
The Trump administration renewed its threats against New York over congestion pricing on Monday, demanding that the state halt the tolling plan or risk the loss of federal funding and approvals for other transit projects. Sean Duffy, the U.S. secretary of transportation, wrote in a letter addressed to Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York that she had until May 21 to explain why his department should not make good on its threats. Penalties for not ending the toll would begin May 28.
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Winnie Hu |Stefanos Chen |Eden Weingart |Tony Cenicola
Deep inside a subway station in Brooklyn, in a cramped, industrial room, Dyanesha Pryor pushes in a metal lever on a hulking machine that was installed nearly a century ago. A few hundred feet away, a signal light flashes red and a train that had been rumbling down the local tracks slides to a stop. Ms. Pryor, a transit worker, pulls another lever and a section of rail shifts into place, allowing the local train to merge onto a shared track in front of a waiting express train.
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Stefanos Chen |Winnie Hu
Congestion Pricing in N.Y.C. Judge Lewis J. Liman struck down several arguments in various lawsuits seeking to undo the New York City tolling program. Though weakened, the court cases continue. The federal judge who could decide the fate of congestion pricing dismissed on Thursday a number of arguments in lawsuits seeking to stop the toll, a move likely to strengthen New York State's defense of the program in its fight against the Trump administration. The judge, Lewis J.
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4 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Stefanos Chen |Winnie Hu
Congestion Pricing in N.Y.C. In response to the transportation secretary's disparagement of the subway system, transit officials said that felonies were way down and fare evasion was dropping. In response to the Trump administration's portrayal of the subway system as lawless, New York transit officials on Wednesday shot back: Crime is down, fare evasion is falling - and the nation's largest transit system deserves far more money.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Dana Rubinstein |Winnie Hu
The plan was to transform two of New York City's busiest crossings for cars into "Bridges for the People," an idea that Bill de Blasio, the mayor at the time, said would help New Yorkers exit "the era of fossil fuels."He promised to remove one vehicle lane apiece from the Brooklyn and Queensboro Bridges to accommodate a pandemic-spurred boom in walking and cycling, a sign of just how far the city had moved away from the car culture that has long dominated its streets.
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