BY BRONX TIMES
With infrastructure talks
heating up, lawmakers are
urging President Biden and
Congress to make a generational,
multibillion dollar investment
to transform New
York’s and the nation’s public
transit systems.
On June 6, Congressman
Jamaal Bowman joined MTA
and NYC offi cials, public transit
riders and the city’s leading
accessibility advocates at
a rally to shape federal transportation
legislation now being
negotiated at the White
House and on Capitol Hill.
Speakers asked Washington
policymakers for $20 billion
for urgently needed new
elevators, signals, electric
buses and transit access in
subway deserts and $3 billion
annually (out of a $20 billion
nationwide program) to maintain
and expand frequent and
affordable service and avoid
devastating fare hikes, service
cuts, and job losses when pandemic
aid runs out in 2023.
“Congress must transform
transit for the Americans
who rely on it all across the
country, from low-income, rural
areas to Black and brown
communities like the Bronx,”
said Riders Alliance Community
Organizer Danna Dennis.
“Confronting climate change
and racial injustice requires a
sustained federal partnership
with investment in reliable
and accessible infrastructure
and in frequent, affordable
transit service. Leaders in
Washington must deliver for
riders, reverse generations
of injustice in transportation
funding, and secure the future
of transit after the pandemic.”
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A debt-free MTA capital
program: Congress should
provide $20 billion to aid the
MTA’s $51 billion 2020-2024
capital program, enabling the
agency to perform essential
and overdue accessibility and
reliability upgrades without
borrowing more money after
a pandemic year in which
debt skyrocketed and revenue
plummeted.
New support for transit
operations: Congress should
provide $20 billion in annual
federal operating support for
frequent and affordable transit
service, via a formula that
delivers at least $3 billion each
year to the MTA to rebuild
and expand its services and
stop fare hikes as ridership rebounds
from the pandemic.
Equitable funding for public
transit across the nation:
Congressman Jamaal Bowman demands money for MTA upgrades.
Courtesy of Riders NY
Congress must end the Reagan
era 80/20 split between
highway and transit funding
that drives the decay of urban
infrastructure, widens racial
divides, and worsens climate
change, and instead make a
‘highway-like’ investment in
transit.
Now Is The Time To Transform
Transit
The White House and Congressional
leaders are debating
President “Amtrak Joe”
Biden’s American Jobs Plan
for infrastructure
The fi ve-year federal surface
transportation spending
authorization is up for renewal
at the end of September.
Bowman rallies with
riders, demands federal
funding for MTA
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