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NYPTA Covid-19 Recovery and Restoration Task Force Initial Report. Read here. 

2023:

• NYPTA 2023-24 Final Budget Review 5/1/2023 here
• NYPTA Letter to Govenor Hochul on Final Budget 3/20/2023 here
• NYPTA Transit Recommendations for Final FY 2023-2024 State Budget 3/20/23 here
• Options to Address the Upstate Dedicated Revenue Shortfall here
• NYPTA Riders Advocacy Council Meeting 2/10/2023 here
• NYPTA 2023-2024 Budget Recommendations here
• Legislative Testimony - Bill Carpenter Testimony on 2/8/2023 here
• NYPTA Executive Budget Review Paper here
• Legislative Testimony - Brian Schultz Testimony on 1/19/2023 here
• Invest in New York's Public Transit Systems to Grow the Economy, Drive Equity, and Combat Climate Change. Read the Op-Ed by Bill Carpenter here
• NYPTA Budget Talking Points December 2022 here
• NYPTA NY Transit Talking Points December 2022 here

2022:

• NYPTA Letter to the Governor. Read the letter from December 20, 2021 here.
• NYPTA 2022 Capital Needs Summary. Download the full summary here.
• Example of Non-MTA Transit Capital Projects Planned for 2022-2026. Download the sheet here.
• NYPTA Summary of Transit Funding in 2022-23 One-House Budget Bills. Download the sheet here.

2021:

• Analysis of Transit Funding in 2021-22 Executive Budget. Read the analysis from January 21, 2021 here. 
• Statement of Bill Carpenter, CEO at RGRTA and President at NYPTA, at the Joint Hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance & Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means Concerning the SFY 2021-22 Executive Budget Proposal Relating to Transportation. Read the statement presented on January 26, 2021 here. 

2020:

• Letter to Elected Officials from Bill Carpenter, NYPTA President on behalf of NYPTA, asking for 32B for NYS Transit Systems. December 11, 2020. Read here. 
• Testimony of Bill Carpenter, President of NYPTA, for the Public Hearing of the Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation Impact of the NYSDOT Capital Program. Read the testimony from October 23, 2020 here. 
• NYPTA Highlights of FTA CARES Act Funding for Transit (as of 4/3/20). Read the full summary here. 
• NYPTA Webinar: SFY 2020-21 Budget Presentation and Covid-19 Best Practices. View the presentation slides here.
• FTA Presentation on CARES Act Implementation. View the presentation from April 6, 2020 here.
• Analysis of Transit Funding in the SFY 2020-21 Enacted Budget. Read the analysis by Bob Zerrillo, Bob Reid and Padraic Bambrick here.
• Joint Legislative Hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance & Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means Concerning the SFY 2020-21 Executive Budget Proposal Relating to Transportation. Read NYPTA President Bill Carpenter's Testimony here.  
• NYPTA State Budget Recommendations. Read our SFY 2020-21 recommendations regarding STOA, Congestion Pricing, State Capital Aid and Rural Transit Assistance here. 
• Statewide Transit Action Plan 2020 - 2024. New York State should implement a Statewide Transit Action Plan to transform public transit by reimagining transit systems and how they are funded, to ensure a brighter future for all of New York’s communities.

2019:

• NYPTA State Budget Recommendations SFY 2019-20
• Joint Legislative Hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance & Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means Concerning the SFY 2019-20 Executive Budget Proposal Relating to Transportation. Read here. 

2018:

• FIX NYC, But Let’s FIX All of NYS: Statewide Action Needed to Fund Transit Services. Read our complete position paper here.
• Joint Legislative Hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance & Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means Concerning the SFY 2018-19 Executive Budget Proposal Relating to Transportation. Click here to read the full testimony. 
• NYPTA Budget Analysis SFY 2018-19
• NYPTA Budget Recommendations SFY 2018-19
• Invest In Transit to Accelerate New York's Economy: 2018 Transit Awareness Day Brochure
• Letter to Governor Cuomo Requesting Long-Term Funding Solution. Read NYPTA President Bill Carpenter's letter to Governor Cuomo here. 

2017:

• Enacted Budget Analysis SFY 2017-18 by Bob Zerrillo, Bob Reid and Padraic Bambrick
• NYPTA Budget Recommendations for Upstate and Downstate Transit Systems Other Than MTA SFY 2017-18 
• NYPTA's Testimony at the Joint Hearing of the Senata Standing Committee on Finance & Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means Concerning the SFY 2017-18 Executive Budget Proposal Relating to Health/Medicaid. Click here to read the full testimony.
• NYPTA's Testimony at the Joint Hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance & Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means concerning the SFY 2017-2018 Executive Budget Proposal Relating to Transportation. Click here to read the full testimony.
• Executive Budget Funding for Public Transportation Analysis SFY 2017-2018
• NYPTA State Budget Recommendations to Improve Transit SFY 2017-18
• Transit Awareness Day Brochure
• Transit Awareness Day Major Discussion Points 
• Analysis of Executive Budget Funding for Public Transportation SFY 2017-2018
• Executive Budget Funding for Public Transportation Allocation Graph

2016:

• NYPTA Sends State Leader Letters Regarding Transportation Network Company Legislation. Click here for the letters.
• NYPTA Testifies at New York State Assembly Transportation Hearing. Click here to read the full testimony.
• Analysis of the Enacted Budget SFY 2016-17 by Bob Zerrillo, Bob Reid and Padraic Bambrick (4/4/2016)
• Carm Basile and Bill Carpenter's Letter to NYS Leadership Regarding the 2016-17 Budget. Read letter here. 
• Review of One-House Budgets. Read the full review from NYPTA.
  
• NYPTA Testifies at NYS Legislature's Joint Budget Hearing on Transportation. Click here to read the full testimony.
• Analysis of SFY 2016-17 Executive Budget Funding for Public Transportation. Click here to view analysis.
• Preliminary Review of Governor’s 2016-17 Executive Budget Proposal. Click here to view summary by Bob Zerrillo, Bob Reid and Padraic Bambrick. Click here to view funding table.

2015:

• Federal Funding to New York Transit Systems:
  • Ron Epstein of NYSDOT prepared a table showing the estimated federal funding under FAST to each NYS Urbanized Area based on current formulas. The funding is shown for each formula program: Section 5307/5340, Section 5337 State of Good Repair, and Section 5339 Bus Program. Also shown are state totals for Section 5311 and 5310. See the table.
  • A second table compares the total 5 year funding to each urbanized area from FAST to 5 years of current funding (at 2015 levels), and shows the amount and percentage increase in funding from FAST. As you may recall, NYPTA's capital needs report assumed flat federal funding at 2015 levels. See the table.
  • Federal transit funding to NYS urbanized areas grows at different rates based on the amount of funding each area obtains from the various federal programs. Transit systems that receive Section 5337 SGR funding see larger increases in overall funding, as this program grows more than other federal transit programs.
• NYPTA Participates in New York State Assembly Transportation Hearing. To read the full testimony, click here and/or view it here.
• NYPTA  Budget Recommendations SFY 2016-2017. Published: Fall 2015
• Analysis of the Executive Budget Funding for Public Transportation SFY 2015-16 

2014:

• FTA Announces Availability of $100 Million for New Ladders of Opportunity Initiative. Read here.
• Summary of 2014 Transit Capital Funding - Transportation MOU. Read here. 
• Governor Cuomo's 2014 Tax Relief Proposal. Read here. 

2013:

• Regional Economic Development Council Award Highlights. Read here. 
• Tax Relief Commission Report. View here.