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February 26, 2015

Fight over $32B plan delays NYC subways

  • The transit agency could be forced to refund money to contractors for expansion projects if the budget debate isn't resolved 18 months from now.
    • By MEGHAN BARR
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — It's an ominous refrain, repeated endlessly in the same automated monotone: “Ladies and gentlemen, we are delayed because of train traffic ahead of us.”

    Every New Yorker who rides the subway to work each day — all 6 million, on the busiest days — has heard that message echoed over loudspeakers when a train car comes to an unexpected halt. What most commuters don't realize is that those delays are tied to a contentious political fight playing out over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's five-year capital budget plan, which will fund critical improvements and repairs to the city's sprawling transit system.


     
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