Sentences with phrase «transit woes»
The phrase "transit woes" refers to problems or difficulties experienced while using public transportation such as buses, trains, or subways. Full definition
(Not mentioned: The upcoming trial of his former close aide and the ongoing transit woes in New York City).
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The Democratic candidate focuses on transit woes, school funding, corruption in Brownsville speech.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney discussed local transit woes, saying there would be a silver lining to come out of the dreaded shutdown of the L line tubes beginning 2019 — higher property values nearby.
Joe Lhota, who returns for his second stint of running the MTA today, says he's ready for the challenge of fixing the NYC's many transit woes.
With varying degrees of comprehension of either the magnitude of the plan or the complexities of the current transit woes, some senators seem to think emergency repairs at Penn Station could somehow be done with MTA money pegged for the third track.
New York City's ongoing transit woes — and lack of funding to solve them — have loomed large in Albany budget talks.
It also was released the same day New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Albany to discuss the state budget and the transit woes facing the subway and the MTA.
«Governor Cuomo's threat to scale back on necessary subway improvements is a transparent attempt to shift blame and accountability for our transit woes onto the Mayor, even though the Governor himself controls the MTA,» Raskin said.
Last fall, Governor Cuomo had announced a Fix NYC panel that would study the city's transit woes and provide guidelines for how to best overcome the ongoing problems.
Albanese is also talking a lot about the subways, seizing on the city's transit woes and saying he wants to be «the mass transit mayor.»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted on Monday he's not «shirking» his responsibility in overseeing the transit woes stemming from the MTA.
Among the issues that Ms. Smith said her group hoped to press about Mr. Cuomo are New York City's ongoing transit woes.
For now, the Republican political strategy seems to be mostly hoping that Mr. Cuomo, riding high in polls, self - destructs: that the transit woes of New York City's subways worsen; that the upcoming corruption trial of one of his former top aides, Joseph Percoco, tarnishes his image; that the state budget falls out of whack; that Democrats challenge and wound him from the left in a primary; and that the third term curse proves an actual curse.
The transit woes provided fodder for another potential Republican challenger, Harry Wilson, a corporate turnaround expert who lost a race for state comptroller in 2010.
Nixon didn't roll out any specifics on how she would fix the city's transit woes, but after the event said the MTA will need a new, dedicated revenue source — and that she was open to both congestion pricing and de Blasio's favored revenue source, a millionaire's tax.