Posted Apr 26, 2015, 10:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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nypost take on the mayors plan to expand the subway:
Begging on the subway
Shhh, hear that? It’s a tin cup rattling in City Hall as the de Blasio crowd tries to fund its transit wish list by begging.
First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris said the city’s push to extend the subway deeper into Brooklyn and add other new transit features depends on billions more from Washington.
“The first element is to lock down its federal funding support,” Shorris told reporters after a speech at the Regional Plan Association. Only then, he said, would City Hall “work with state and local resources,” according to Capital New York.
File this one under fat chance. For one thing, the MTA’s massive capital plan already faces a $15 billion hole. Where’s that money coming from?
For another, the GOP Congress won’t open the spigot for a Democratic Socialist mayor whose coffers are overflowing with tax receipts.
The state, too, had a multibillion-dollar surplus that it’s spending elsewhere, so why should national taxpayers fund what New Yorkers won’t?
The approach explains the skeptical reaction to de Blasio’s massive sustainability plan, which he calls OneNYC. Pie-in-the-sky would be more honest.
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