MTA should restore Q75 route: Weprin
Posted by Phil Corso in City Council, City Offices, District 23 on May 10, 2013 | No Comments
After hearing news of an unexpected $40 million surplus for the MTA, one northeast Queens lawmaker proposed the agency bring back a vital bus route in his district after cutting it in 2010. The agency discovered the extra state dollars last month after lawmakers in Albany passed the 2013-14? budget, which included an increase of [...]
Pols push MTA to spend surplus on Queens lines
Posted by Phil Corso in Assembly, District 24, District 25 on April 26, 2013 | No Comments
A $40 million MTA budget surplus has leaders from northeast Queens calling to expand service and undo drastic cuts made in 2010. Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through [...]
Nadler slams federal bill as killer of city transit funds
Posted by Philip Newman in City Council, City Offices, Congress, U.S. House on March 22, 2012 | No Comments
Legislation recently introduced by the U.S. House of Representatives is “a Draconian and unacceptable blow to transit funding in New York City and the nation,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Brooklyn) told the City Council Transportation Committee last week. Although the measure has since been withdrawn in the House and the U.S. Senate has passed its own [...]
Crowley, Maloney blast bill that would sap MTA of funds
Posted by Philip Newman in Congress, District 14, District 7, District 9, U.S. House on February 9, 2012 | No Comments
Congressional members, transit officials and labor leaders have raised an alarm about proposed Republican legislation that would end automatic federal transportation money and leave New York City’s transit system in jeopardy. “This is a bill aimed like a dagger at the heart of cities and suburban areas,” said U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan) at a [...]
Queens dreads 11 weekends of 7 train outage
Posted by Rebecca Henely in City Council, City Offices, District 26 on January 19, 2012 | No Comments
City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) hosted a town hall meeting with representatives of the MTA last week about extensive renovation to the No. 7 line that will mean some Long Island City stops will be out of order for 11 straight weekends. “I wanted to have this town hall so people have an opportunity [...]
Turner pushes guv to cut Cross Bay Bridge toll
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, Congress, District 23, District 9, U.S. House on December 22, 2011 | No Comments
U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-Middle Village) reminded Gov. Andrew Cuomo of his Queens roots after writing the governor in an effort to end the toll on the Cross Bay Bridge. Then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani instituted a rebate program in 1997 for Broad Channel and Rockaway residents who used the Cross Bay Bridge that gave residents a [...]
