$16B Budget Shortfall Looms Over NY MTA
Expect this to be a busy holiday travel week with Canada Day on Monday and the U.S. Independence Day on Thursday. Welcome to your Transit Unplugged News Minute.
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Expect this to be a busy holiday travel week with
Speaker:Canada Day on Monday and the U.S.
Speaker:Independence Day on Thursday.
Speaker:Welcome to your Transit Unplugged News Minute.
Speaker:The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced it has a 16
Speaker:billion budget shortfall due to the governor stopping the congestion
Speaker:pricing toll that was to start in June.
Speaker:The MTA board met last week.
Speaker:They're saying there's nothing they can do without state approvals, so the
Speaker:agency has stopped the subway expansion plan, it won't be able to make stations
Speaker:wheelchair accessible, and it can no longer improve existing services.
Speaker:In Mississauga, Ontario, Metrolinx just completed a two year tunnel excavation
Speaker:project to extend its light rail.
Speaker:They excavated approximately 1.
Speaker:2 million metric tons of soil and rock.
Speaker:And North America's first federally compliant, self powered, zero
Speaker:emission passenger train arrived in San Bernardino County, California.
Speaker:Using hydrogen and battery technology, water vapor is the
Speaker:only emission generated, making this a clean transit choice.
Speaker:This Transit Unplugged News Minute is Modaxo.
Speaker:I'm Julie Gates.
Speaker:Thank you so much.