Transit advocates gird for bad news from Cuomo

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Dana Rubinstein

The question these days in transportation circles isn't whether the governor will find a way to fill the massive funding hole in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to fix the region's mass transit system, but what he'll slash.

The M.T.A. five-year plan costs $32 billion; the money it has to spend is some $14 billion less than that.

"What projects will be cut at this point?" asked Veronica Vanterpool, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. "What projects are not going to move forward? How much is the Legislature going to look to put toward either a two-year program or a five-year program? I think that’s a real big question."

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/06/8569551/transit-advocates-gird-bad-news-cuomo

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1. The Second Avenue Subway again ? nt