Mar. 28, 2025 By Colum Motherway The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) hosted an open house at the Ridgewood Library on March 27 to present detailed plans for the Interborough Express (IBX), a major new rail project designed to improve transit connectivity between Brooklyn and Queens. The IBX would make use of a 14-mile-long freight…
Feb. 20, 2025 By Paul Pogozelski Our public transportation systems are flawed, mismanaged, and broken, to say the least. We rely on MTA subways and busses to get us to and from work, school, and home. Yet, when we do put our faith in the billion-dollar public transit system, we are placed in unsanitary,…
Jan. 26, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon As congestion pricing chugs along, another big MTA project stands to move forward with financial support from the Manhattan toll plan: a new Brooklyn-to-Queens train that will potentially transform city travel as outer-borough commuters know it. Dubbed the Interborough Express (IBX), the proposal for a light rail connecting…
Nov. 14, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Dozens of people gathered at Queens Public Library in Jamaica Wednesday evening for the MTA’s 2025-29 Capital Plan Open House, which aims to invest $68.4 billion across the subway, bus and commuter rail systems over the next five years. Wednesday’s open house was the second event hosted by…
Oct. 29, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The MTA says it is considering digging a tunnel underneath a Queens cemetery to carry the proposed Interborough Express (IBX) light rail line between Brooklyn and Queens, nine months after amNewYork Metro exposed the grave potential consequences of previous plans to run trams on the street. MTA construction…
Sep. 22, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The MTA’s $68 billion capital plan, unveiled last week, proposes starting construction on the Interborough Express (IBX), the potentially transformative light rail link between Brooklyn and Queens, within this decade. The 2025-29 capital plan, the transit agency’s overarching five-year spending priorities for maintenance, renewal, and expansion, includes $2.75 billion…
Jan. 22, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The success or failure of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s marquee transit proposal, the Interborough Express (IBX) connecting Brooklyn and Queens by light rail, is centered on a short, skinny tunnel underneath a Queens cemetery that the MTA says requires the line to be routed away from existing railroad tracks…
Jan. 9, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
The proposed Interborough Express (IBX) light rail between Brooklyn and Queens is inching forward, with officials hoping the project can be designed and engineering challenges resolved starting this year, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday.
Aug. 15, 2023 By Aidan Graham The MTA is gearing up to host a virtual public town hall on the Interborough Express project on Wednesday, where it will update the community about the progress being made on the plan that would connect the underserved areas of Brooklyn and Queens. The meeting is scheduled to…