Sentences with phrase «transportation planning authority»

Anne Strauss - Weider, Director, Freight Planning, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority

A former state assemblyman, Port Authority commissioner, and chairman of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority.

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In 2008, PCWorld magazine reported that a U.S. District Court judge ordered the cancellation of a Defcon talk by three MIT students who planned to reveal design flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's electronic ticketing system.

Gerald Brooks, an attorney for the Park District, said the Illinois Department of Transportation plans to transfer authority over Belmont Road to DuPage County, which will require the center turn lane.

The bill would direct a small portion of the city's sales tax revenue to pay for half of the transportation authority's $ 836 million, short - term plan to improve subway service.

At the Governor's direction, the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, State Police, the Department of Transportation and the Thruway Authority have already begun to plan accordingly for weather conditions.

As a Department of Transportation official under Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1996, John Tipaldo alerted authorities to a plan by his bosses — DOT Commissioner Christopher Lynn and first deputy Richard Malchow — to award a contract to make 100 «Don't Honk» signs to Lynn's buddy.

Rejecting advice from Rep. Brian Higgins (D - Buffalo) to shrink its plans, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority board Thursday voted to hire a consultant to plan extensions of Metro Rail.

Cuomo said this summer he's crafting a congestion pricing plan for the city as a means to cut traffic and raise funding for the beleaguered, state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The new state budget recently signed by Cuomo creates the Design and Construction Corp., a three - member panel to be selected by Cuomo that will advise other state departments on construction projects costing $ 50 million or more, such as large university buildings, the new Penn Station and planned upgrades at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Jeff Klein, would direct a small portion of the city's sales tax revenue to pay for half of the transportation authority's $ 836 million, short - term plan to improve subway service.

As the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority looks to recommend a specific plan to federal authorities early in the new year, Cuomo's advocacy for the project could eventually provide crucial local financing to a project requiring Washington's approval.

Much of the debate about the corporation, however, has focused on whether it's an attempt by Cuomo to gain further control over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $ 29 billion modernization plan, which includes 30 remodeled subway stations along with repairs to bridges and tunnels.

Glen Cove officials are viewing the temporary Metropolitan Transportation Authority ferry service that begins tomorrow as a crucial test run for the long - term commuter boat routes to Manhattan that the city has been planning for years.

The budget contains the largest state transportation plan ever approved, with over $ 55 billion of transportation investments statewide, including $ 27.14 billion for State Department of Transportation and Thruway programs and $ 27.98 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation Authotransportation plan ever approved, with over $ 55 billion of transportation investments statewide, including $ 27.14 billion for State Department of Transportation and Thruway programs and $ 27.98 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation Authotransportation investments statewide, including $ 27.14 billion for State Department of Transportation and Thruway programs and $ 27.98 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation AuthoTransportation and Thruway programs and $ 27.98 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation AuthoTransportation Authority programs.

The budget will also grow the economy with a $ 4.2 billion middle class tax cut when fully effective and critical statewide infrastructure investments — including a new $ 55 billion State Transportation Plan that commits $ 27.14 billion for Department of Transportation and Thruway programs and $ 27.98 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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.

NEW YORK CITY — Serial subway predators who strike underground could be banned from trains and buses under a plan being discussed by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

We have no plans at the moment,» Bill Finch, the acting executive director of the Thruway Authority, testified during a joint legislative hearing looking into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plans for the state's transportation programs.

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.»

Brian Kolb (Canandaigua — 129th District), the Republican Minority Leader of the Assembly, discusses his plan to merge the Thruway Authority with the Department of Transportation.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget plan includes $ 9.7 billion for the departments of transportation and Motor Vehicles, the Thruway Authority and the MTA.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, used the new equipment, the Track Construction machine, for the first time in the Double Track project, and plans to use it in future projects.

And Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority officials warn that a separate plan to extend Metro Rail at the other end of the line into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad terminal at the foot of Main Street also is imperiled by Trump's proposal to discontinue another funding source pegged for the $ 42 million project.

And Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., the only returning incumbent in the bunch, pointed to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to add four Metro North stations in the Bronx as a promise he would make sure is not broken.

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.

Represents the most progress made since plans for the new bridge began over 10 years ago New York State Press Release New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) Commissioner Joan McDonald and New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA) Executive Director Thomas Madison today announced that NYSDOT and NYSTA have completed and released the Draft Environmental -LSB-...]

Another central pillar of the budget agenda is a Rider Relief Plan that will invest crucial funding into the crumbling Metropolitan Transportation Authority for immediate repairs, a fare freeze for all riders, discounted MetroCards for the neediest individuals and an Express Bus fare reduction.

The plan is among 21 proposals in Mr. Cuomo's annual address that he has unveiled since December, including his most recent: calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to look at improving transportation access to the Red Hook, Brooklyn area, including possibly extending subway service to a new station from LoTransportation Authority to look at improving transportation access to the Red Hook, Brooklyn area, including possibly extending subway service to a new station from Lotransportation access to the Red Hook, Brooklyn area, including possibly extending subway service to a new station from Lower Manhattan.

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.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a deal on a $ 168.3 billion spending plan that increases school aid by $ 1 billion, restructures the state tax code to respond to changes in Washington, directs money to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by raising fees on taxis and Uber rides and paves the way for the use of eminent domain near Penn Station.

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.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman, Joseph J. Lhota, an appointee of Mr. Cuomo's, outlined a plan to upgrade a system plagued by increasing delays and rider anger.

The 2019 executive budget allots $ 429 million towards the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $ 836 action plan that's aimed at addressing both immediate and long - term issues with the subway, such as signal malfunctions and track maintenance.

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.

Lhota said he has no plans to fire LIRR president Patrick Nowakowski «at this time,» but another top executive at the railroad has stepped down amid growing criticism from riders and Metropolitan Transportation Authority brass over poor service in recent months.

At the same time, Cuomo insisted his own plan to fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and reduce vehicle congestion through the congestion pricing plan was «difficult» but more «feasible» to pass the Legislature.

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.

Ravitch, a Yale - educated lawyer, has a long history of running into flames and rescuing institutions: the Urban Development Corporation in the seventies, Bowery Savings Bank in the eighties, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, both as chairman during Mario Cuomo's administration (they butted heads) and as the architect of the bailout plan approved by lawmakers in the spring.

Neither congestion pricing nor a new tax would deal with the immediate needs or fund the emergency plan that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, has undertaken to make urgent repairs to trains, signals and other equipment.

The $ 29 billion, five - year infrastructure plan for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to which Mr. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed last year includes $ 5 million to pay for a study exploring a Utica Avenue subway extension in Brooklyn.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's outgoing head Jay Walder released his 2012 preliminary budget and four year financial plan.

ALBANY — Buried within the state budget is Gov. David Paterson's plan to transfer maintenance responsibilities for Interstate 84 to the Department of Transportation from the New York State Thruway Authority in September.

Cuomo's spokeswoman released a statement calling de Blasio's $ 15 minimum wage plan a «non-starter» and saying that the rail yards, partially owned by the state - controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was not available for short - term development.

The payroll tax emerged after months of rancorous talks about a subsidy package for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority when a plan to impose tolls on the East River bridges was defeated amid opposition from some Democrats in the state Senate.