MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Wednesday he is confident that the MTA will get the $68.4 billion needed to fund the five-year capital plan unveiled the
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber speaks about five-year capital plan at the Corona Maintenance Yard in Queens on Sept. 18, 2024.The ambitious plan, officially rolled out at the MTA ’s Corona Yard shop in Flushing, calls for 2,000 new railcars across the subway and commuter rail systems, as well as 60 ADA-compliant subway stations by 2029.
“The congestion pricing issue that the governor has indicated she fully intends to resolve is part of the current MTA 2020-24 capital program,” Lieber said. “She said again and again that she will. And we’ve said again and again that we take her at her word.” Lieber acknowledged that Hochul’s decision to pause congestion pricing caused the MTA to delay some ADA projects as well as some signal projects and the acquisition of some zero-emissions buses. However, he stressed that the projects were delayed but not canceled entirely.
“We need to make sure that the power systems, which look like the land That Time Forgot, don’t fall apart like they have in New Jersey.”
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