Sentences with phrase «transit authority fund»
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Furthermore the plan is expected to greatly alleviate the Metropolitan Transit Authority's chronic funding shortage.
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MTA chief Tom Prendergast said he hasn't tried to pressure Cuomo into restoring $ 40 million in transit funds in the budget — money that advocates say could stave off fare hikes or add service — because the authority's «needs are being met.»
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.
Attendees sought to focus legislators on issues of importance to TWU members, including the Tier 6 pension; greater funding for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA); and efforts to blunt the expected impact of the Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision.
The highway trust fund shouldn't be used to pay for mass transit, but instead roads, Katko said, or at least mass transit authorities should pay in too.
Congress has dropped plans to slash mass transit funding for «high density» states such as New York, meaning the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will not be losing $ 3.6 million annually in federal aid after all.
The governor, however, came under scrutiny for the problems plaguing the New York City subway system and elected officials are debating ways of finding new funding sources for the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Transit advocates and elected officials asked Cuomo to be more specific about his commitments to funding improvements to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's infrastructure, saying his current budget contains nothing more than an IOU.
He authored legislation to require more accountability from the more than 700 state and local authorities that use public funds and provide quasi-governmental services like mass transit and economic development.
And after a bitter clash with Mr. Cuomo last fall over boosting the city's contribution to the state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mr. de Blasio agreed to cough up $ 2.5 billion toward the transit system — only to have the MTA shear funding for construction of the Second Avenue Subway by nearly $ 1 billion.
• Highway Infrastructure and Urban Transit, administered by the Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, continued to fund thousands of jobs in construction projects around the State and directly funded 2,735 jobs.
The State Senate Republicans backed down last night from a proposal to cut funding for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, agreeing to a deal with Governor Andrew Cuomo that will allow the authority's capital program to progress asAuthority, agreeing to a deal with Governor Andrew Cuomo that will allow the authority's capital program to progress asauthority's capital program to progress as planned.
New York City lawmakers and transit advocates on Monday called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority amid rising subway ridership and a forthcoming fare increase.
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.
Lhota, who proposed an $ 836 million emergency plan, said Monday that the mayor «has acknowledged New York City's significant ownership of the New York City Transit Authority and the fact that new funding is needed to modernize the subway system.»
The state Senate Democratic Conference on Friday sent a letter to Cuomo saying that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority funding issue needs to be a budget priority to ensure «a new generation of investment in our vital transit infrastructure.»
On transit, he said the next mayor must start a public conversation about how to improve the current funding scheme for the cash - strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he ran for a little less than a year before stepping down to campaign for mayor.
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.»
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.»
She noted that while transit across upstate can expect a 1 percent increase in operating assistance in 2018 - 2019, funds for NFTA capital projects will decrease by $ 2.2 million in the authority's $ 234.2 million budget.
This is not the first year Centro has spent more money running buses in its four central New York county service area than it's taken in to do so, but according to the public transit authority's executive director, Frank Kobliski, they've run out of one - time funding streams to fill the hole.
The question these days in transportation circles isn't whether the governor will find a way to fill the massive funding hole in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to fix the region's mass transit system, but what he'll slash.
The funding will be dedicated to an MTA «lockbox» and offer long - term funding to support the subway action plan unveiled by Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman Joe Lhota, transit improvements in the outer boroughs and a general transportation account for the city.
Kobliski urged those in attendance to advocate to state lawmakers on the transit authority's behalf to increase funding.
During a Wednesday appearance on NY1, Cuomo asked the city to contribute more money to help fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital plan, even though de Blasio has already met Cuomo's previous requests for money transit funding.
Already, the Transport Workers Union, which has been engaged in bitter criticism of de Blasio over funding for an emergency Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) plan put forward by Lhota (again the agency's chair), has spent $ 119,025 on a TV ad attacking the mayor (TWU is seen as an ally of Governor Andrew Cuomo, a consistent de Blasio foe with whom the union negotiates its major labor contracts).
De Blasio and Gov. Cuomo, along with MTA officials, have been gridlocked over who has responsibility for properly funding mass transit — the governor who controls the region's transportation authority or the mayor whose city depends on subways and buses.
But Hizzoner said controls over the transit authority's funds have long been too lax and obscured by «interesting math.»
At a contentious hours - long hearing held on Tuesday by the the City Council's Committee on Transportation, Council members grilled representatives of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on the problems facing the city's transit infrastructure and the challenges of finding both short - and long - term funding streams to adequately maintain and upgrade the city's subway system.
In addition to the TIFIA loan, the project utilized $ 47.6 million in CTA funds, $ 50,000 from Illinois DOT, $ 10 million in federal Bus Livability grants, $ 35 million in Regional Transit Authority bonds and $ 18.19 million in TIGER grant proceeds.
Handling promptly the intake and referral of discrimination complaints filed against a DOT funding recipient, which include state departments of transportation, motor vehicle departments, and transit and airport authorities, among many others.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced the allocation of nearly $ 390 million in FY 2013 Disaster Relief Appropriations Act funds to reimburse the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the Port Authority Trans - Hudson Corp. (PATH).
Any project that includes funds awarded under section 5309 of title 49, United States Code, shall be exempt from consolidation under this section unless the grant recipient requests the Federal Transit Administration to be the lead administering authority.
The term subrecipient means a State or local governmental authority, a nonprofit organization, or an operator of public transportation or intercity bus service that receives Federal transit program grant funds indirectly through a recipient.
On July 30, 2015, the U.S. Senate passed a short - term highway and transit bill, which extends authority through October 29, 2015, but replenishes the Highway Trust Fund into December 2015.