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Its $17 billion operating plan projects $4.5 billion in Washington assistance next year while sidestepping — for now — doomsday service cuts and layoffs.
December 17 -
Pinned into a corner from the economic effects of COVID-19, the mass transit agency tapped its remaining amount available through the Municipal Liquidity Facility, which expires at year's end.
December 10 -
Bridge funding from a lame-duck Congress could help plug operating deficits and stave off doomsday measures, agency leaders insist.
December 10 -
Analysts, issuers and lawmakers have mixed responses to the closure of the Municipal Liquidity Facility with some saying the move puts the municipal market in a precarious spot as COVID-19 continues to ravage the country.
November 20 -
MTA officials revealed dark budget-and-service cut scenarios and Mayor Bill de Blasio closed in-person public schools, actions likely to ripple through the city's economy.
November 19 -
Neal Zuckerman, a New York MTA board member, tells The Bond Buyer's Paul Burton how takeaways from that era relate to today's transit funding crisis. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." (24 minutes). Recorded Oct. 30.
November 17 -
The move would not resolve structural budget gaps, according to the rating agency.
November 3 -
New Jersey said it expects to issue up to $4.5 billion of tax-exempt and taxable bonds the week of Nov. 18 under the COVID-19 Emergency Bond Act.
October 29 -
The transit agency — its revenues battered, its credit standing weakened and with no federal rescue aid in sight — looks to borrow its remaining $2.9 billion available through the Municipal Liquidity Facility.
October 29 -
How effectively bus and train operators can serve commuters coming out of the coronavirus pandemic remains a big question.
October 27