GOP pols push city to pump more money into MTA
Straphangers started paying more to ride buses and subways on Sunday, but New York City isn’t paying its fair share into the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s capital plan budget, according to two Republican lawmakers, who are calling on Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio to rectify the financial shortfall.
State Sen. Marty Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-Southwest Brooklyn) and Assemblymember Joe Borelli (R-C-Staten Island) called on de Blasio to “adjust” the city’s contributions to the MTA capital plan budget so that it keeps pace with inflation.
The capital plan budget deals with major construction and repair projects like the Second Avenue subway and station renovations in the transit system.
Golden and Borelli charged that the annual contribution from New York City is approximately $100 million a year. That’s lower than the sum the city paid in 1982, the two lawmakers said.