See How Your Subway Service May Suffer Without Congestion Pricing

After Gov. Kathy Hochul halted New York City’s congestion pricing program last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority cut $16.5 billion worth of planned upgrades to the city’s vast transit network, mostly to account for the loss of funding that was tied to revenue from the toll.

The impact of the congestion pricing suspension on the M.T.A.’s funds for capital projects

$16.5 billion

worth of projects put on hold

$15 billion in funding tied to congestion toll revenue

$500 million used for toll equipment

$1 billion in federal funding in jeopardy

$12 billion

available funds remaining for projects

$12 billion

available funds remaining for projects

$16.5 billion

worth of projects put on hold

$15 billion in funding tied to congestion toll revenue

$500 million used for toll equipment

$1 billion in federal funding in jeopardy

Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Notes: The chart shows the $28.5 billion in uncommitted funds in the M.T.A.’s 2020-24 capital program; an additional $27 billion had already been committed.

Projects were cut from each part of New York City’s transit system, which is the largest in North America and is used by millions of people every day. The projects included elevator and ramp installations that would make subway stations accessible for people with disabilities, structural repairs to aging infrastructure and upgrades to 1930s-era signals that regularly cause delays.

Here are some of the subway projects the authority says it has shelved:

The cuts announced by the M.T.A. — the state agency that runs the subway, bus and commuter rail lines — will also affect transit outside the subway system. The authority has postponed the purchase of more than 250 electric buses and charging infrastructure at bus depots, as well as upgrades to regional rails and a ramp reconstruction on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

The $12 billion remaining in the M.T.A.’s capital funds will be spent on projects the authority considers the most urgent, like track replacements and repairs to power substations. It will also replace some of the “least reliable” subway and railway cars, the authority said in a report.

All told, there are 92 subway stations that will not get planned improvements, including 22 stations that will not get new elevators or ramps; 10 that will not get upgrades like structural repairs, platform replacements and new barriers between platforms and tracks; and 71 that will not get upgrades to their public announcement systems.

Below is a list of the subway stations where upgrades have been put on hold, based on what the M.T.A. has detailed so far: