Sentences with phrase «funded subway action plan»
The mayor and the governor have been sparring over who should fund a subway action plan unveiled by MTA chairman Joe Lhota in July.
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On Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo celebrated achieving the full funding goal for the emergency action plan to fix the subway, but also used that moment to criticize the city, saying repairs would have gone a lot faster if the city had contributed sooner, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Governor Andrew Cuomo committed funds to cover the state's half of the MTA's $ 836 million subway action plan.
Despite the city and state's past skirmishes over funding the NYC subway, the de Blasio administration has agreed to contribute $ 418 million towards the subway's $ 836 million emergency action plan, the New York Post reports.
Now fully funded through a state budget provision that forced New York City to provide half of the required funding, the Subway Action Plan is intended to address some of the myriad problems facing the subway system.
«The governor has allocated $ 8.4 billion in the MTA capital plan, is pushing for a dedicated funding stream for the MTA and committed an additional $ 400 million for the subway action plan, while Mayor de Blasio did not meet his legal obligation to fund the capital plan and refuses to pay his fair share,» he said.
The letter also said that Johnson agreed the city should fund half of Cuomo's subway action plan, which has a price tag of roughly $ 400 million.
«We're glad to know that the Legislature will join the governor's call to give the MTA the stable funding stream it needs, and we continue to urge the city to do the right thing and partner with the state to fund their half of the subway action plan for the people of New York,» said Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi.
He is promoting his emergency subway action plan, which is now fully funded.
Cuomo's office defended the governor's subway record in a statement, citing funding of the state's half of the Subway Action Plan, a proposal to send mobility tax revenue directly to the MTA and an $ 8.6 billion investment in the capital program.
«Most importantly, the governor has committed to funding the state's half of the subway action plan.
After MTA Chair Joe Lhota put forth an emergency subway action plan and asked the city and state to split the $ 836 million price tag, Governor Andrew Cuomo agreed and de Blasio balked, saying the city should not be on the hook for any more funds and insisting that the state repay money it had raided from the MTA — ironically, the same $ 456 million figure now being asked of the city.
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.
«Governor Cuomo's executive budget includes capital and operating support to fully fund the state's half of the $ 836 million subway action plan,» Lhota said in his opening remarks at a City Council hearing on Wednesday morning.