The plan that the board approved today, and that Albany will now spend months deliberating on, would fund a new fare payment system to replace the already - obsolete MetroCard; put $ 2.9 billion toward finally finishing the East Side Access project that will allow Long Island Rail
Road passengers to disembark
in Grand Central; allocate $ 1.5 billion to begin work on the second phase
of the Second Avenue Subway, extending it from 96th to 125th streets; and fund countless other nitty - gritty,
state -
of -
good -
repair needs across the system's 5,000 - square - mile service area.