Staten Island light rail

According to PlanNYC.org, which is affiliated with the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, "[t]he proposed five mile route, which would connect Arlington and the St. George Ferry Terminal, would cost $360 million, with funding coming from federal, state and local agencies.

In order to move forward, the project will require a $4 million allocation from Congress for a feasibility study which is currently awaiting approval from the House Transportation Committee.

[3] In July 2018, the MTA indicated that it was retaining a consultant to advise on an environmental impact assessment for the bus rapid transit line on the North Shore Branch for $4.8 million.

[9] The two alternatives from the study are being evaluated alongside other potential transit expansion and improvement projects in the city as part of the 2025-2044 Twenty-Year Needs Assessment, which is planned to be completed by October 1, 2023.

Beginning at the South Shore, probably near a park-and-ride in Pleasant Plains, the proposed line would run along New York State Route 440, according to an alignment decision in March 2009.

[6] As part of the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program, $4 million has been allocated for the alternative analysis of light rail on the West Shore of Staten Island.

There would be a dedicated right-of-way in the highway's median between Arthur Kill station and Old Place and Western Avenue, with service in mixed traffic via the Goethals Bridge and the New Jersey Turnpike to AirTrain P1 Parking Lot.

[14] In March 2020, the MTA was expected to select its preferred alternative by the end of April, and the project did not have funding for its environmental impact study.

[15] However, in Spring 2020, the MTA announced that all planning studies, including the West Shore Alternative Analysis, would be put on hold due to financial issues resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

[17] The two alternatives from the study are being evaluated alongside other potential transit expansion and improvement projects in the city as part of the 2025-2044 Twenty-Year Needs Assessment, which is planned to be completed by October 1, 2023.

[18] As of April 2011[update], weekday peak limited stop service from Staten Island terminates at 34th Street with a connection to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Exchange Place.

In 2019 the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey completed its project to raise the roadbed of the bridge by 64 feet (20 m), in order to provide the 215-foot (66 m) clearance required by the newer post-Panamax container ships to pass under it.