"The suit from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the latest in a series of legal battles between the federal government and officials in New York and New Jersey over funding for transportation infrastructure projects in the region - including a reconstruction project for New York's Penn Station, a new rail tunnel between the two states and New York's first-in-the-nation congestion fee on drivers entering the busiest part of Manhattan."
"The latest litigation, filed in the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, said that since the government last year announced it was suspending funding for a project to the extend the Second Avenue subway line, the U.S. Department of Transportation has withheld over $58.6 million - "with more to become due soon.""
"Without the federal funds, the state agency has had to divert money from elsewhere, but if the suspension continues, the work will eventually come to "a screeching halt," the suit argues."
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in the Court of Federal Claims, alleging breach of contract over the withholding of nearly $60 million in federal funding for the Second Avenue subway line extension. The $7.7 billion project requires $3.4 billion in federal support, but the Department of Transportation suspended funding last year. Without these federal funds, the MTA has diverted money from other sources, but continuation of the suspension threatens to halt the project entirely. This litigation represents the latest conflict between federal and New York-New Jersey officials over transportation infrastructure funding, including disputes over Penn Station reconstruction, a new rail tunnel, and congestion pricing.
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