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A LaGuardia train, and other early ‘reinvention’ proposals


By Dana Rubinstein
Jul. 16, 2014

Some of the finest minds in transportation descended on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Madison Avenue headquarters Tuesday afternoon to engage in an unusual brainstorming exercise: What should be done to fix the M.T.A.?

The occasion was the first public meeting of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s election-year M.T.A. reinvention commission, a body he created in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which deluged and then hobbled the system, and after the Metro-North derailment that killed four passengers, the first passenger deaths in the railroad’s history.

Tom Prendergast, the Cuomo-appointed M.T.A. chairman, invited some of the most prestigious names in transit to join the commission, and several of the the region’s transit leaders appeared before those experts on Tuesday to offer their advice, of both the specific and unspecific variety.

.....“We need an Air Train that goes to LaGuardia,” said McDonald, the transportation commissioner for Cuomo, who promised to improve New York City's airports in this year's state of the state speech. “And do we have dedicated lanes that go to LaGuardia and JFK? People are willing to pay for that. And we just have to personally—I think we have to bite the bullet and move on. But I don’t make all those decisions. Just that one little caveat at the end.”