Sentences with phrase «purpose of funding transit»
Taxes collected exclusively downstate for the express purpose of funding transit were re-routed to the state's general fund.
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Since 2011, Reinvent Albany and numerous advocacy, business and labor organizations have supported a series of «lockbox» bills that would make it more difficult for the governor to divert funds dedicated to public transit to the General Fund or other purposes.
estimate the balance of the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) at the end of such fiscal year and the end of the next fiscal year, for purposes of which estimation, the Secretary shall assume that the obligation limitation on Federal - aid highways and highway safety construction programs for the next fiscal year will be equal to the obligation limitation enacted for the fiscal year for which the limitation is being distributed;
In response to this change, FTA advised that while works of art not integral to a facility, such as sculptures, would no longer be eligible, transit agencies could continue to use FTA funds to support the employment of an artist as a member of a design team, or other costs associated with art, provided that the artistic elements were integrally related to the facility or served a functional transit - related purpose.