MTA Commits to Second Ave Subway Amid Criticism Over $1B Budget Cut
(DNAINFO) Gustavo Solis and Jeff Mays | November 3, 2015 — City and state lawmakers traded barbs with the MTA Tuesday over the agency’s $1 billion cut to the Second Avenue Subway line.A coalition of lawmakers that includes members the state Assembly and Senate, City Council members, the city’s Comptroller, and the Manhattan Borough President called for the MTA to put the money back in their 5-year capital plan, claiming the cut was a slight on the low income area of upper Manhattan during a press conference Tuesday.
“This screams of transit inequality and economic injustice,” said Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez. “There is no reason phase one should stop on 96th Street and in the shadow of public housing we can’t make the second phase go up.”