Sentences with phrase «transit capital plan»

The governor has not spelled out yet where the state's $ 8.3 billion share of the new MTA mass transit capital plan will come from.

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All told, the money will put into motion 14 capital projects identified in the Mayors» Plan, including modernizing key transit stations across the region, adding a third SeaBus, and adding additional cars to the SkyTrain, Canada Line, and West Coast Express.

With a modernization plan due soon from the new head of the MTA's New York City Transit division and another five - year MTA capital plan looming, all signs point to the governor asking the city to yet again allocate additional funds toward the state - controlled MTA.

With the MTA at least $ 9 billion short on funding for its five - year capital plan, New Yorkers who ride buses and subways should be counting on legislators to secure a new revenue stream for transit.

According to the plan, the new tolls would not only function as a way to raise money for the MTA (the city pledged more than $ 2 billion to the transit authority's recent capital plan), but would also help reduce existing tolls on crossings such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

Cuomo's hand - picked MTA chairman Joe Lhota gave a quick history lesson of the history of the authority, explaining that the city owns the assets of MTA sub-agency New York City Transit and the state only stepped in to fund the first capital plan in 1981 because the city's finances were a mess and the subways were a disaster.

Albanese believes that, despite control of the MTA being largely in the hands of the governor, the city can still play a bigger role in fixing its transit issues; he has pledged to add $ 1 billion in city money to the MTA capital plan, in order to fix the subway's ailing signals, among other things.

When the MTA board officially approved the plan last week, many elected officials and transit advocates were surprised to learn that the second phase of the Second Avenue subway, extending from 96th Street to 125th Street in Manhattan, would be put off past 2019 after the authority cut $ 1 billion from its capital plan.

Also part of the state's plans, the Capital District Transit Authority will create an express bus route connecting the Harriman campus, UAlbany, the adjacent SUNY Polytechnic campus and downtown Albany.

Also at 1 p.m., NYC subway and bus riders will rally with lawmakers from both parties, calling out Cuomo for zeroing out the MTA capital plan in his budget and demanding that the state follow through on the governor's promise to fund public transit investment, Assembly staircase, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The plan also calls for shifting revenues from taxes on real estate transactions, which are now used to pay for day - to - day transit operations, to the agency's capital budget, which finances long - term projects like the Second Avenue subway.

Elected officials called for the MTA to put the money back into their 5 - year capital plan, with Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez saying the move to cut funds «screams of transit inequality and economic injustice.»

Topics: bridge, capital plan, governor cuomo, greg mocker, Joe Lhota, lirr, Mayor de Blasio, MetroNorth, MTA, nyc, subway, train, transit, Tunnel

The State Senate Republicans backed down last night from a proposal to cut funding for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, agreeing to a deal with Governor Andrew Cuomo that will allow the authority's capital program to progress as planned.

Cuomo's budget plan calls for the city of New York «to provide in full all funding required to meet the capital needs of the New York City Transit authority» in its five - year capital plans.

The current five - year transit system capital plan, which covers upkeep for the subways, the Long Island Rail Road and Metro - North, plus other pieces of the transit system, is about $ 29 billion.

NYPTA advocated at the Capitol for a sustainable funding plan for upstate and suburban downstate transit and a multi-year state commitment to transit capital needs and operating aid growth.

The governor in his budget plan included a passage saying that the city «shall provide in full all funding required to meet the needs of the New York City Transit Authority in such (a capital) plan.»

Language tucked into Cuomo's budget plan would give the city 60 days after a declared transit emergency to appropriate an identical sum committed by the state to fund «the capital costs of repairs and construction deemed essential to ensure the continued safe and effective operation of such transit facilities.»

Gov. Cuomo in his budget plan included a passage saying that the city «shall provide in full all funding required to meet the needs of the New York City Transit Authority in such (a capital) plan.»

Quinn was referring to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $ 30 billion capital plan, whose purpose is to keep the region's mass transit system in a reasonable state of repair, and expand it where possible.

Peter Cafiero, chief of operations planning at New York City Transit, also pointed to a $ 15.2 billion deficit in the MTA's capital plan when Ms. Rose brought up the BRT.

In response to Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr.'s request, Governor Andrew Cuomo is supporting four Metro North stations in the Bronx — and the Governor has allocated $ 750 million dollars for this in the new 5 - year Metropolitan Transit Authority's Capital Plan.

Cuomo and Tom Prendergast, the man he appointed to run the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, proceeded to outline a number of initiatives they said would improve New York's mass transit system, many of which are already contained in the authority's now four - year, $ 26 billion capital plan, the one that the state is more than a year late in approving.

On Friday morning, the governor convened reporters, union laborers and politicians in the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn and regaled them with his plans for a mass transit system befitting a great world cTransit Museum in downtown Brooklyn and regaled them with his plans for a mass transit system befitting a great world ctransit system befitting a great world capital.

Topics: 125th street, capital plan, East Harlem, greg mocker, Harlem, MTA, nyc, Second Avenue, Second Avenue subway, subway, transit

During a Wednesday appearance on NY1, Cuomo asked the city to contribute more money to help fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital plan, even though de Blasio has already met Cuomo's previous requests for money transit funding.

«While the MTA's capital security program has taken far longer and cost more than planned to complete, the regional transit system is more secure and the public better protected today,» DiNapoli said.

The rival pols have been locked in a feud over who should pay for the transit agency's capital plan to fund expansion and maintenance projects, with Cuomo demanding de Blasio increase the city's contribution to $ 3.2 billion.

TTP funds will be awarded to projects for operating assistance for start - up / new transit services, capital replacement and expansion projects and planning studies.

Given that details about the MTA's capital spending plan are only now coming out, the fact that more than half of the polled New Yorkers support congestion pricing if the revenues go to transit is actually pretty impressive.

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Another large - scale collaboration with the transit authority is located at Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, where a venture of Legacy Partners and Gatehouse Capital of Dallas plans a 300 - room hotel, 140 condominiums and about 60,000 sq. ft. of retail on a site occupied mostly by asphalt parking lots and a bus layover; the historic Taft Building will remain on the corner.