MTA Chairman Janno Leiber faced lawmakers in Albany, emphasizing the urgent need for funding to address a $35 billion budget deficit jeopardizing the agency's $68 billion capital plan. Suggestions from outside sources, including taxing deliveries, emerged, but Leiber refrained from disclosing specific funding strategies, stating that it is the legislature and the governor's role to identify revenue. Critics like Assemblymember Claire Valdez and State Sen. John Liu urged the need for concrete proposals and transparency in discussions surrounding the funding strategy to repair the transit system's outdated infrastructure.
I think that would be helpful so we can all see the details and make sure that we're allocating resources most effectively. But these are all moving targets, and we need input from all sides.
They control the purse strings. We're just trying to be helpful to them that there are options that may be available to them other than, you know, new revenue streams.
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