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1/29/2026
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) committed $15.8 billion to capital improvements in 2025, the highest single-year investment in transit infrastructure in the New York agency's history.
Of the $15.8 billion dedicated to capital projects, the MTA completed $6.7 billion worth of projects in 2025, including 41 station elevator replacements, 10 station accessibility upgrades, circulation improvements at Grand Central Station and the opening of a new rail car acceptance and testing facility in Brooklyn.
Projects funded in 2025 included improvements called for in the MTA's 2025-2029 capital plan, according to a press release from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's office.
MTA dedicated $500 million for accessibility upgrades, $3.4 billion for state-of-good-repair work and other supporting programs, $6.6 billion for rolling stock, $2 billion for signal improvements and $2.7 billion for system expansion work, according to the release. Also in 2025, the authority awarded a $166 million contract for the engineering and design of the Interborough Express project, a planned light-rail line between Brooklyn and Queens.
Additionally, MTA awarded a $1.5 billion contract to Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. in November 2025 to construct 378 new New York City Transit subway cars. The MTA also completed the first phases of the Park Avenue viaduct replacement and the Grand Central Train Shed rebuild.
More than $5 billion of the 2025 capital commitments came from the MTA's congestion relief program. Implemented on Jan. 5, 2025, the program was created to reduce traffic gridlock in Manhattan, specifically south of and at 60th Street. Drivers entering the relief zone are charged a toll, the revenue from which is used to fund improvements to the MTA system, including the subway system, the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad.