Sentences with phrase «upstate roads and bridges»

Cuomo has pledged to spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges over the next five years and has proposed a $ 1 billion plan to freeze tolls on the state Thruway.

WNY Republican and Democratic lawmakers are joining together to push Cuomo to provide «true parity» in funding between upstate roads and bridges and the downstate Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

More broadly, Cuomo said he also wants to invest $ 22 billion in upstate roads and bridges over five years.

«When the Democrats controlled everything, the New York City Democrats, there were bailouts for the MTA, the Metropolitan Transportation Association, and no money for upstate roads and bridges — and that was the tradeoff every year before that.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

Republican leaders in the State Senate have recently pushed for more money for upstate roads and bridges in order to approve the capital plan.

Plus, and update on upstate roads and bridges.

-- Plus, and update on upstate roads and bridges.

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It also allocates money for upstate roads, highways and bridges.

Cuomo unveiled the latest peek into his plans for the coming year in Liverpool yesterday, proposing $ 22 billion for fixing roads and bridges upstate over the next five years, in what he calls the biggest ever transportation capital plan.

Maffei counters fixing roads and bridges is important, but he harkened back to the building of the Erie Canal, which transformed upstate's economy.

Mike Elmendorf, president of Rebuild NY Now, a coalition led by contractors that has campaigned for investment in roads and bridges, has been calling for «parity» in the level of investment upstate and in the MTA region, whose five - year capital plan calls for $ 26 billion in spending.

His plans call for improvements at the MTA, an overhaul of Pennsylvania Station, a new LaGuardia Airport, a third track on the Long Island Rail Road, an expansion of the Jacob Javits Center, major upgrades to John F. Kennedy Airport as well as to air terminals in Long Island and the Hudson Valley — all on top of new roads and bridges across upstate «like we've never built before.»

Senator DeFrancisco says the legislature in those years approved a bail out for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but did not provide and funds to repair roads and bridges upstate.

They range from legislation to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for workers not already covered under the governor's series of executive actions, to massive infrastructure projects, including the renovation of Penn Station, $ 22 billion worth of road and bridge upgrades upstate, and expansion of the Long Island Railroad.

At 2:30 p.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb joins Assemblyman Steve Hawley and others to call for increased funding for local roads, bridges and highways in upstate New York, Ontario County Transportation Center, 2930 County Rd. 48, Canandaigua.

Their vision of parity is the state agreeing to spend an equal amount of money on upstate and Long Island roads and bridges.

Upon Cuomo's pledge this month to chip in $ 8.3 billion to the MTA's modernization plan, upstate lawmakers began citing the needs of roads and bridges in their communities, hoping to have a shot at state funding for those improvements during the next budget process.

Upstate elected officials, as well as construction - oriented organizations, have in recent months pushed state officials to back a boost in upstate infrastructure spending aimed at repairing and maintaining aging roads, bridges and sewer systems.

Some upstate New York roads and bridges damaged by this summer's flooding will be able to be fixed using $ 5 million in federal highway funds.

The Governor's budget calls for $ 22 billion over five years to fix upstate's ailing roads and bridges and $ 26 billion over five years for New York City - area mass transit.

«Roads and bridges upstate, airports upstate and downstate, new mass transit, new attractions, new rail transit and new mass transit downstate, which is desperately needed.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan, who hails from Long Island, wrote in the Times Union in October that «it's only fair to turn our attention to roads and bridges upstate, many of which are severely deteriorating.»

In Syracuse, the governor said he wants to spend $ 22 billion to fix roads and bridges upstate, and will freeze Thruway tolls for the next four years, worth another one billion.