🎉 It’s the Big One: Welcome to the Supersized 25th Edition of the BOMA-NY Transportation Report 🗞️
June 2025 | BOMA-NY Codes & Regs Committee
Welcome to Edition #25 — our silver-plated, scooter-swerving, heavily hyperlinked, and poetry-punctuated transportation report for New York City commercial property professionals who like their policy briefs with punchlines and footnotes. This is not just another monthly PDF. This is BOMA-NY’s Inbox-Worthy Infotainment Dispatch, and I think we deliver on being informative, Irreverent, and Inbox-worthy. It’s a labor of love each month, and we hope our readers appreciate the blood, sweat, tears, and searches through old treasure boxes to put together each issue. We’ve gone supersized for summer.
✍️ What’s Inside? Everything you would want in a transportation report and more!
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Data? ✅
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Jokes? ✅
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Dogs on jet skis? ✅
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NYCDOT bumper sticker nostalgia? ✅
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Harrison Ford? ✅ (Again!)
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Springsteen? ✅ (Because you all secretly wish you were managing a building in Asbury Park)
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A poetic Knicks homage and real rhyming verse between congestion pricing stats and tunnel repair updates ✅✅✅
🚫 Staying Out of Politics But Noting Its Big Impact On the Transportation Sector
We don’t wade into the political swamp, but this month’s transportation headlines had too much… Trump v. Musk energy to ignore. So we cover how their fight over the “Big Beautiful Bill” winding its way through Congress is impacting the EV subsidy drama, charging station policy reversals and more. Also the imported new Air Force One is a story about an airplane and much more. And how tariffs are affecting our ports and US auto production. How DOGE cutbacks and new appointees affect Hurricane tracking and Federal responses to weather disasters.
🌟 Plus, a Milestone Worth Celebrating
Thanks to your enthusiastic inbox clicks and real-world laughs, this monthly report has inspired a spinoff for property managers across the Hudson: the brand-new BOMA-NJ Transportation Report. Because, let’s face it, after sinkholes, runway shutdowns, and NJ Transit strikes, Jersey needed some love too.
Now — on with the good stuff.
✅ BOMA-NY Transportation Report – June 2025 Summary (So Much More In This Supersized 25th Edition)
🚘 Federal Policy & Electric Vehicles
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Trump vs. Musk Feud: The June report opens with the public fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The former president’s proposed $2.4 trillion tax bill eliminates EV credits and subsidies, drawing sharp opposition from Musk and contributing to a 14% drop in Tesla’s stock.
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EV Market Impact: Tesla sales dipped 8.6% YoY in Q1 2025. Meanwhile, China’s BYD surpassed Tesla in global deliveries and continues dominating the EV export market.
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Tariffs and Trade: U.S. courts ruled Trump exceeded authority under the IEEPA in imposing some tariffs. Auto manufacturers are shifting production to China to avoid rare-earth material restrictions.
🚦 Congestion Pricing & NYC Streets
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NYC’s congestion pricing collected over $215M YTD, with vehicle entries to Manhattan’s CBD dropping 11% daily.
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Legal disputes continue; courts blocked federal attempts to withhold NYC funding. Public support for the program has risen to 39% (from 29%).
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Fifth Avenue redevelopment and additional bike/pedestrian zones are underway. MTA plans expansion of bridge/tunnel speed cameras.
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NYC’s rat control efforts have taken away parking spaces with new rat proof containers. Menawhile, complaint numbers continue to rise despite Mayor Adams’ well-publicized “war on rats”.
🚇 Subway & MTA System
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Felony assaults increased, even as overall subway crime hit record lows. NYPD criticized for lax fare enforcement and sleeping guards.
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Rockaways A-Train service has been restored for the summer.
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Plans are underway to install systemwide cell service by 2032 and debut new open-gangway trains on the G line.
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The MTA is studying Washington D.C.’s Metro success with higher fare gates and reduced evasion.
🚉 Commuter Rail & Amtrak
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NJ Transit resumed service after a short strike that impacted 350,000 riders. Aging fleet replacement is in planning; PATH performance issues persist.
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For NYC Subway Chief Andy Byford was appointed to lead Penn Station redevelopment.
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Amtrak closed the East River tunnel for repairs and proposed new single-seat service between Long Island and Washington, D.C., by 2030.
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A lower-cost proposal for NE corridor high-speed rail ($17B) is being explored as an alternative to the $117B federal proposal.
✈️ Newark Airport & Aviation Issues
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Newark Airport faced runway construction, radio outages, and ATC staffing crises. FAA limits arrivals to 28 per hour; some blame staffing cuts.
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Incidents: toddler rescued from baggage belt; birds invaded a Delta flight; a scorpion stung a passenger in Boston.
🚙 Driving, Highways & Infrastructure
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Sinkholes shut down portions of I-80 and the Garden State Parkway this spring.
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The NJ Turnpike Authority dropped Tesla-exclusive charging stations for universal EV chargers.
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NYC passed a law to allow street sweepers to issue parking tickets automatically. Over 3,000 ghost plate citations were issued.
🌉 Bridges
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Brooklyn Bridge collision: A Mexican Navy ship struck the bridge while departing Pier 17. Two died, 19 were injured, but the bridge structure remained intact.
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The Queensboro Bridge opened new dedicated pedestrian and bike lanes on May 18, 2025.
🚌 Buses
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NYC plans to launch a 34th Street Busway and extend bus lanes on Madison Ave.
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Port Authority broke ground on a new Midtown Bus Terminal designed for 1,000 buses/hour, net-zero emissions, and improved pedestrian zones.
⚠️ E-Bike & Delivery Reform
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NYPD launched a crackdown on unsafe e-bike riding; some City Council members warned of risks to immigrant workers.
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NYC plans to cap e-bike/scooter speeds at 15 mph, matching EU rules, and proposed a new Department of Sustainable Delivery.
🌍 Global & National Transportation
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Trump reportedly sought to use a gifted Qatari aircraft as a replacement for Air Force One; the plane needs $2B in upgrades
