Bad fiscal news from MTA chief
-
- June
- 11
When asked if that means tolls and train, bus and subway fares might go up, he said not if the state increases its aid to the transit system. “It’s too early to say,’’ he said.
“I am asking the Legislature and the governor for more financial support,’’ he said at the hearing, conducted by Assembly Authorities Committee Chairman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh. That’s considered unlikely since the state, too, is under intense fiscal pressure.
One more bit of bad news from Sander: the $20 billion MTA capital plan is “badly underfunded.’‘
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm by Jay Gallagher.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Share and Enjoy: | 
Print This Post
| 
Email This Post
Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
