Sentences with phrase «authority capital plan»

«I don't think it's hard to figure that out,» the mayor said when asked why the Transport Workers Union was now attacking him for not doing enough to fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority capital plan, which has a $ 9.8 billion shortfall.

It's not just that he forced the mayor to cough up $ 2.7 billion more for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority capital plan and then saddled the city with half the cost of the $ 436 million emergency effort to fix problems created by his own neglect of the MTA.

Not exact matches

Construction is already underway on an opera house in the capital Riyadh, and the country plans to host 5,000 entertainment events this year, the BBC reports, citing the Saudi General Entertainment Authority.

Officials at the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority anticipate an aggressive «shovels in the ground» schedule beginning early next year to make these planned capital improvements.

Now Chicago Park District authorities are preparing to take a holistic approach, working with engineers to develop a broad plan for Grant Park's future that encompasses aesthetics, traffic patterns, events, capital improvements, pedestrian access and more.

«A few years ago, the five - year capital plan allocated an enormous amount of money, probably not enough, and that money needs to be spent appropriately and in a very timely fashion, and that doesn't always happen,» said Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which has some oversight over the MTA.

According to the plan, the new tolls would not only function as a way to raise money for the MTA (the city pledged more than $ 2 billion to the transit authority's recent capital plan), but would also help reduce existing tolls on crossings such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

Cuomo's hand - picked MTA chairman Joe Lhota gave a quick history lesson of the history of the authority, explaining that the city owns the assets of MTA sub-agency New York City Transit and the state only stepped in to fund the first capital plan in 1981 because the city's finances were a mess and the subways were a disaster.

Heaney said his sources tell him the Peace Bridge Authority is focused on its $ 185 million capital improvement plan that will take another four -LSB-...]

(The authority a $ 14 billion funding gap in its five - year capital plan, which Albany did not address before the session ended).

The New York City Housing Authority may have used «inadequate» criteria to select boilers for replacement in 2016 as part of its five - year capital plan, Stringer's office said.

But the project had stalled as an amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Plan was withdrawn at the Capital Program Review Board, potentially fearing a veto from Flanagan's appointees on the board.

The ad buy comes after an amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Plan was withdrawn at the Capital Program Review Board, potentially fearing a veto from Flanagan's appointees on the board.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday announced $ 20 million worth of «short - term» improvements that, coupled with the MTA's five - year capital plan, are designed to make the system run more reliably.

The authority's five - year capital plan does not include money for the proposed additional track.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, a lawmaker from the East Harlem district impacted by the sudden funding cut to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's recently approved $ 26 billion capital plan, called the delay «unacceptable.»

When the MTA board officially approved the plan last week, many elected officials and transit advocates were surprised to learn that the second phase of the Second Avenue subway, extending from 96th Street to 125th Street in Manhattan, would be put off past 2019 after the authority cut $ 1 billion from its capital plan.

The authority's current capital plan is still awaiting the approval of state leaders, but officials at the authority said the project could be added to the plan in the future.

How much money would be included in the resolution for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five - year capital plan and the state Department of Transportation's five - year plan was not made clear.

Last month, Cuomo asked some of his New York commissioners to boycott the Port Authority's public board meeting in protest of the ongoing dispute with New Jersey over what to fund in the agency's 10 - year capital plan.

Governor Andrew Cuomo rounded out the top three, as he's pushed Albany to fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital budget plan, rebuild the Tappan Zee Bridge and undertake an ambitious plan for a Queens convention center to replace the Javits Center.

Her clients include the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the Capital District Regional Planning Commission and several engineering firms and colleges, the release said.

Also part of the state's plans, the Capital District Transit Authority will create an express bus route connecting the Harriman campus, UAlbany, the adjacent SUNY Polytechnic campus and downtown Albany.

The city has also pledged $ 2.5 billion to support the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five - year capital plan and is spending almost $ 340 million to subsidize its public hospitals.

It includes contributing $ 8.3 billion toward the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's own capital plan and $ 13.9 billion to the state Department of Transportation capital effort.

In a move that surprised city officials, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Monday that the de Blasio administration should significantly increase its contributions to the agency's $ 32 billion capital plan.

Public Housing Investment: Mayor de Blasio allocated $ 1 billion in capital funds in his revised capital spending plan towards roof repairs at 729 NYCHA buildings, putting a dent in the $ 17 billion in capital needs at the public housing authority.

That was on top of the authority's $ 32.5 billion capital improvement plan.

Cohen didn't appear at Thursday's board meeting, something Port Authority executive director Pat Foye attributed to his «frustration» with the Port Authority's capital planning process.

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Heaney said his sources tell him the Peace Bridge Authority is focused on its $ 185 million capital improvement plan that will take another four years to complete.

Cuomo's budget plan calls for the city of New York «to provide in full all funding required to meet the capital needs of the New York City Transit authority» in its five - year capital plans.

He has sought to distance himself from the state authority he controls, while in the same breath arguing that he put an «unprecedented» amount of funding into the authority's five - year capital plan.

In the meantime, the impasse has caused the Port Authority to acknowledge that it probably won't release its draft capital plan this year, as intended.

And after approving a state budget that provided some funding to support to the authority's roughly $ 30 billion capital plan, there are no plans to send more resources — or even clarify whether more money is needed.

(Pictured left to right: John Demers, Capital District Physicians Health Plan; Dr. Steady Moono, President, Schenectady County Community College; Sean Fitzgerald, Assistant Commissioner HCR; Hon. Kathy Sheehan, Albany Mayor; Assemblyman John McDonald; Steven T. Longo, Executive Director, Albany Housing Authority)

Earlier this year, Degnan threatened to hold up Cuomo's LaGuardia airport renovation to secure an indeterminate amount of funding for a new bus terminal in the authority's 10 - year capital plan.

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The governor in his budget plan included a passage saying that the city «shall provide in full all funding required to meet the needs of the New York City Transit Authority in such (a capital) plan.»

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's next five - year capital plan is approved for $ 29 billion, $ 8.3 billion of which would be paid by the state under an October proposal from the governor.

Gov. Cuomo in his budget plan included a passage saying that the city «shall provide in full all funding required to meet the needs of the New York City Transit Authority in such (a capital) plan.»

Quinn was referring to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $ 30 billion capital plan, whose purpose is to keep the region's mass transit system in a reasonable state of repair, and expand it where possible.

In response to Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr.'s request, Governor Andrew Cuomo is supporting four Metro North stations in the Bronx — and the Governor has allocated $ 750 million dollars for this in the new 5 - year Metropolitan Transit Authority's Capital Plan.

Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Mr. Cuomo had helped to secure the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's largest capital improvement plan after years of underinvestment.

This has been borne out in their various proxy battles over the future of charter schools, the funding of the Metropolitan Transportation authority's capital plan, the growth of e-hail giant Uber, and how long the mayor should have authority over the city's public schools.

He famously stood his ground in a development financing dispute with Larry Silverstein, who wanted the Authority to backstop financing for two office towers with no private tenants to speak of, a move that Ward argued would undermine the struggling Authority's capital plan.

Cuomo and Tom Prendergast, the man he appointed to run the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, proceeded to outline a number of initiatives they said would improve New York's mass transit system, many of which are already contained in the authority's now four - year, $ 26 billion capital plan, the one that the state is more than a year late in aAuthority, proceeded to outline a number of initiatives they said would improve New York's mass transit system, many of which are already contained in the authority's now four - year, $ 26 billion capital plan, the one that the state is more than a year late in aauthority's now four - year, $ 26 billion capital plan, the one that the state is more than a year late in approving.

«The Thruway Authority has taken important steps to save costs and put in place a financially secure capital plan that will allow vital repair projects to be undertaken across New York State,» Governor Cuomo said.

If Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature don't approve the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2015 - 19 capital plan by June 30, the agency will «run out of money» and be unable to begin new projects, MTA chairman Tom Prendergast said Wednesday.

The state's Thruway Authority has yet to release a full plan to pay for the remainder of the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement and Cuomo has yet to say how he will find $ 8.3 billion over the next five years to plug a hole in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital plan.