GPI Joins Select Organizations in Key Meeting with Surface
Transportation Board Commissioners, December 6th, 2017
Not exact matches
Polly Trottenberg, the city's Department of
Transportation commissioner and an MTA
board member has pledged to press the governor and state legislature to reinstate the $ 65 million, and said that she will be «working with our allies up in Albany to see if we can reverse these cuts, which we really have a great concern about.»
The president of the bridges and tunnels division, Cedrick Fulton, offered up the information regarding the funding set aside for this project, when questioned by the city's
transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg, who is also an MTA
board member.
The city's
transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg (who is also an MTA
board member) asked that the agency think more creatively about how to procure the funds, and potentially change the agency's priorities to make the subway repairs of the utmost importance.
Thanks to the delay, de Blasio will have one representative on the
board whom he chose himself: his
transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg.
Governor Cuomo is now publicly on
board, after his economic development
commissioner, Howard Zemsky, brought up the lack of
transportation options during a recent visit to the state's capitol, using deadpan humor to get his point across.
Two attendees pointed to the «major
commissioners,» NYPD, FDNY and
Transportation, as prime government spots held by whites to the loss of African - Americans, while another pointed to City
boards and commissions as the main available locus of government power.
Polly Trottenberg, an MTA
board member and
commissioner of the city's Department of
Transportation (DOT), told Observer the mayor believes wealthy New Yorkers can afford the tax increase.