Sentences with phrase «subway emergency action»

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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.

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.

Governor Cuomo says the city will also be required to pay for half of the $ 800 million emergency action plan for the subway.

He is promoting his emergency subway action plan, which is now fully funded.

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.

He also boasted that the city, as part of the budget, will finally be required to pony up half of a more than $ 800 million MTA emergency action plan designed to address a spate of subway problems.