MTA 20-Year Needs Assessment October 2023
After starting at the MTA in Winter 2022, my first project was working on developing their 20-Year Needs Assessment – an ambitious, broad, and comprehensive blueprint that outlines the MTA region's transportation investment needs for the next 20 years.
When we first started envisioning what we wanted this report to look like, we knew it needed to be more data-driven, more transparent, and more engaging and accessible to the folks who have most at stake: our riders.
This document takes a hard look at the state of the system, underscoring the urgent need for renewing and upgrading our existing infrastructure. It also advocates for picking up the pace in modernizing the system for the 21st century, with an aim to foster a more accessible, resilient, and sustainable transit network.
For the first time, rather than limiting ourselves to only discussing the projects we think will get funded, we did a detailed and honest accounting – a gargantuan task analyzing the state of millions of assets worth over $1.5 trillion dollars and laying them all out for the public to see the full scale of our needs.
Our journey in crafting this report was a dive into uncharted waters. The way we approached data and the colorful and engaging narrative we built around hard facts significantly contrasts with past publications. We've not only analyzed complex topics but translated them into a language that hopefully resonates with everyone, making the report a more visual, accessible, and engaging tool to empower the public to advocate for a better transit future.
And if you know me, you know I needed to make it an interactive website, too.
future.mta.info
After starting at the MTA in Winter 2022, my first project was working on developing their 20-Year Needs Assessment – an ambitious, broad, and comprehensive blueprint that outlines the MTA region's transportation investment needs for the next 20 years.
When we first started envisioning what we wanted this report to look like, we knew it needed to be more data-driven, more transparent, and more engaging and accessible to the folks who have most at stake: our riders.
This document takes a hard look at the state of the system, underscoring the urgent need for renewing and upgrading our existing infrastructure. It also advocates for picking up the pace in modernizing the system for the 21st century, with an aim to foster a more accessible, resilient, and sustainable transit network.
For the first time, rather than limiting ourselves to only discussing the projects we think will get funded, we did a detailed and honest accounting – a gargantuan task analyzing the state of millions of assets worth over $1.5 trillion dollars and laying them all out for the public to see the full scale of our needs.
Our journey in crafting this report was a dive into uncharted waters. The way we approached data and the colorful and engaging narrative we built around hard facts significantly contrasts with past publications. We've not only analyzed complex topics but translated them into a language that hopefully resonates with everyone, making the report a more visual, accessible, and engaging tool to empower the public to advocate for a better transit future.
And if you know me, you know I needed to make it an interactive website, too.
future.mta.info
