Sentences with phrase «fund public transit systems»
Instead of trying to squeeze every penny out of hard - working upstate residents, the Governor should be reprioritizing budget issues so that we can fund public transit systems through more appropriate budgetary means, starting with the legislation he vetoed that would have helped identify more long - term funding sources for upstate transit systems.»
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The money collected from the endeavor would go to funding repairs to the city's ailing public transit system, while also easing record traffic in Manhattan.
The funds generated from this fee, as much as $ 525 million per year, will be poured into MTA coffers to fix the city's ailing public transit system.
The congestion pricing plan was largely meant to fund the city's ailing public transit system, and this new surcharge too will go to the MTA to speed up repairs.
Maybe next Flanagan can use public funding to create a privately owned alternative mass transit system.
Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden is unfamiliar with the funding and is unsure if the county would be eligible, but said the county would like to add more routes to its public bus system, the Greene County Transit Ssystem, the Greene County Transit SystemSystem.
Rep. John Katko asked a committee of House and Senate members Wednesday to restore $ 12 million in funding for Centro and billions for other public transit systems that were cut in a highway bill the House passed earlier this month.
Central New York's public transit system is facing a sizeable budget gap and it's proposing a major reduction in service if more funding isn't provided.
He said his progressive tax reforms would also fund «A Green New Deal for New York» featuring full employment, living wages, single - payer health care, fully - funded public schools, affordable housing and mass transit, and a 100 percent clean energy system by 2030.
In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.
«Although some of these changes represent modest improvements, we're very disappointed that after months of discussion the city fails to recognize that we can't create a stronger Midtown if we don't reliably invest in the transit system, predictably fund public space improvements, protect landmark worthy buildings, and make sure that New Yorkers have a real voice in the future of their skyline,» Lola Finkelstein, chairwoman of a multi-board task force comprised of Community Boards 1, 4, 5 and 6, said in a statement.
-LRB-...) Eliminating the Capital Investment Grants program, which gives funds to public transit systems, would produce savings of $ 14.7 billion from fiscal years 2015 to 2024, CBO said.»
Fund public transportation systems and support urban planning designs that incorporate walkability, open space, green building design, reduced dependence on automobile transit, and climate change resilience.
Perhaps immediate incentives for producers and buyers of higher fuel efficiency and the production cleaner, renewable energy sources combined with a plan to improve America's public transit systems (many of which have been losing funding at a rapid pace) would help reduce total fuel consumption today, not in 2017.
The pilot system is being funded by a grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation in the hope that «corporate campuses, vacation destinations and high - density urban and public transit locations» will see the value of these systems.
This means ensuring funding for programs like KIDCO, JTED, and JobPath; building a stronger public transit system; and supporting local partners like community food banks, who work each day to provide resources to those who need it most.
A Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act loan of $ 292 million, in combination with previously issued and authorized general airport bond revenues would make available the funds to finance an $ 884 million multi-modal development project that would consolidate rental car functions as well as public parking into a multi-level structure and provide for an extension of the Airport Transit System (ATS) at O'Hare.