The Interborough Express has the potential to be a transformative piece of infrastructure, but to truly live up to its potential, it needs to be constructed to global standards: as an automated light metro.

ETA talked with Bloomberg CityLab about the future and potential of the IBX.

In a baffling and unacceptable move, the MTA recently announced that its purchase of 378 new R268 subway cars will not include walk-through open gangway trains.

As ETA's Blair Lorenzo explained to Streetsblog, walk-through trains are the worldwide standard for good reason: they are safer, more comfortable, and carry more people.

Do you want to learn more about through-running, and why it's the clear solution to improve service at Penn Station? There are few better places to start than with this short documentary from the Joint Transit Authority, featuring ETA’s own Blair Lorenzo and Khyber Sen.

ETA talked to the New York Times about a bill on Gov Hochul's desk that would mandate two crew on every subway train—something not required by any other metro in the world. This bill threatens existing service and would threaten having modern, automated trains on the new IBX. One-person and automated trains are the standard across the world; this bill would lock New York in the past.

ETA’s Blair Lorenzo talked to The City about how the IBX is moving forward at a quick pace—for American infrastructure, at least. In particular, it’s good to see the state pay to fund an Environmental Impact Statement without guaranteed federal support so that the project can be shovel-ready when federal money is available again.

The Gothamist highlights ETA’s work trying to stop a poorly-thought through law mandating two-person trains—something mandated no where else in the world. ETA’s Blair Lorenzo points out that trains run safely in major cities all over the world with one-person operations or fully automated systems.

“Lighter trains are always better, they are cheaper to run, they accelerate faster, they brake faster"

ETA's Blair Lorenzo talked with The City about potential the technologies on the city's newest subway car order, the R262.

ETA's Madison Feinberg discussed recent PATH troubles with Gothamist. Weekend PATH service is already unacceptable, and the PANYNJ needs to do everything it can to improve its schedules and reduce maintenance impacts on off-peak riders.

A look at the problems of PATH by the Joint Transit Association, featuring ETA’s Madison Feinberg.

In this discussion of the pros and cons of fare free buses, Slate’s David Zipper cites ETA’s work on Six Minute Service.

In this episode of The Brian Lehrer show on WNYC, MTA Chair Janno Lieber is asked about ETA’s through-running plans for Penn Station, decribing through-running as “positive” and something the MTA is “interested” in.

ETA’s executive director Blair Lorenzo was a guest on WBAI’s Eco-Logic show, discussing the region’s pressing transportation issues, ways to make transit more effective, and New Jersey’s misguided attempt to widen the NJ Turnpike through Jersey City.
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“While we are not in love with the way the situation was handled or the lower price, we our ecstatic that congestion pricing will finally be implemented,” said Blair Lorenzo, Executive Director, Effective Transit Alliance. “This is a major victory for New York that promises not only a steady funding stream for the MTA in very uncertain times, but also make life better for all New Yorkers by reducing traffic. A needed victory for New York!”

"We are ecstatic that the MTA made the right decision to build a tunnel through All Faiths Cemetery," said ETA Executive Director Blair Lorenzo. "For the price of a single, short tunnel, IBX riders will get faster, more frequent, and more reliable trips for decades to come. We will work to ensure the MTA keeps to their word and builds a shallow, inexpensive tunnel, but this is an investment well worth making."

In a major victory for effective transit, the MTA has decided to build a tunnel under All Faiths Cemetery for the Interborough Express. This will benefit riders for decades to come. Includes a quote from ETA’s Alon Levy.

ETA's Madison Feinberg was featured in the NYT explaining that Amtrak is playing Whac-a-Mole with its Depression-era electrical system. They can't simply tweak it to fix issues like we've seen this summer.

Bloomberg news dives deep into the Great Depression-era designs of wiring on the Northeast Corridor using ETA’s report.

Today, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and a broad coalition of legal experts, potential plaintiffs, and advocates announced they are exploring all legal avenues, including multiple lawsuits, to resume New York City’s congestion pricing plan, which Governor Kathy Hochul walked back at the eleventh hour. ETA is a proud part of the coalition, and is quoted in the press release.

A 515-foot tunnel beneath All Faiths Cemetery would slightly increase the cost of the project in exchange for "enormous" service benefits, a new report argues.