Two straphangers filed lawsuits this week against the MTA and the city for the September 11 derailment of a G train in Brooklyn.
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Cuomo said the only time the state took money was using $20 million of the state’s $1 billion recent payment to the MTA to pay for a few of the MTA debt costs.
“To put your request in perspective the $3.2 billion you’ve demanded from the city over five years would amount to more than 10% of what the city would typically spend on capital projects over the same period”, the letter ads.
This did not sit well with at least one Queens official.
New York City’s subways and buses are relied upon more than ever before in this era where people are moving away from cars and more toward biking and public transportation. The TWU has been running print ads comparing de Blasio to a farebeater, as well as a subway operator in charge of a battered train.
The gap has sparked a fight between Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
In response, Cuomo lashed out at de Blasio for claiming that if the city kicks in more money, the state could take it for other purposes, WCBS 880’s Peter Haskell reported.
If the state makes that contribution, it will stay with the transit agency.
Cuomo called that argument “a joke” in the latest installment of the feud between the New York’s top Democrats.
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“That framework, according to Spitalnick, involves identifying where the promised State funds will come from; returning the $270 million that has been raided from the MTA and committing to no further raids; ensuring that the primary funder of this State authority – New York City – has a greater say in which projects are funded”.
