Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Andrew Cuomo

Legislature Passes on Deficit Fix, Putting MTA Raids In Cuomo’s Hands

By Noah Kazis | Dec 2, 2010 | No Comments

In Albany this week, legislative leaders declined to take action to close the state’s current $315 million budget deficit. That pushes the problem into 2011, when a new governor and likely a Republican State Senate will be in power. Whether dedicated MTA funds will still be used as a piggy bank, at the expense of […]

Good Gov Groups, Transit Advocates Call on Cuomo to Stop MTA Raids

By Ben Fried | Nov 23, 2010 | 3 Comments

Albany’s repeated plundering of the MTA’s dedicated funds has robbed transit riders of more than $140 million in the past year alone. With a $9 billion budget gap looming, straphangers could end up paying again very soon. An impossible fix, you ask? I know the subject is Albany and we’ve all been conditioned to think […]

Cuomo on MTA Raids: Transit Funds Are “Fungible”

By Ben Fried | Nov 18, 2010 | 12 Comments

WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein reports on the most troubling sign yet that Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo is not willing to stop Albany’s practice of raiding dedicated transit funds to plug gaps in the state budget. From a press conference yesterday: Cuomo: “I understand the concern. Everyone — especially in a declining budget environment, where we are now, […]

Industry and Insiders Dominate Cuomo’s Transpo Transition Team

By Noah Kazis | Nov 16, 2010 | 21 Comments

Andrew Cuomo named his transportation transition team and for transportation reformers, there’s not a lot to celebrate. The list has no voices from the advocacy community and is dominated by private-sector business leaders. That’s an unfortunate step backwards from Eliot Spitzer’s team four years ago, which was stacked full of progressive transportation advocates, MTA reformers […]

Is Cuomo’s Spending Cap the Real Threat to Transit Funding?

By Noah Kazis | Nov 12, 2010 | 5 Comments

With the threat of future raids on the MTA’s dedicated funds looming on the horizon, I spoke with Fiscal Policy Institute executive director Frank Mauro to continue our investigation of how to keep transit funding secure. Mauro agreed with Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign that there’s no good way to systematically prevent sweeps of […]

Cuomo Wants Budget Fix ASAP, So Another MTA Raid May Be Coming Soon

By Noah Kazis | Nov 10, 2010 | 2 Comments

If Andrew Cuomo has his way, the state legislature and Governor Paterson will close the state’s $315 million shortfall before he takes office. The push from the governor-elect means that in the next two months, New York state’s current leadership may again determine whether to close a budget gap by raiding MTA dedicated funds. Nearly […]

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