Anyone with a wheelchair or stroller is severely hampered from heading to the tennis tournament or a Mets game on mass transit despite long-delayed promises to upgrade accessibility at the hub.
The long-term budget plan outlines buying new train cars, shoring up crumbling stations and inching forward on the Interborough Express spanning Brooklyn and Queens.
A $68.4 billion blueprint for the future unveiled last week calls for $9 billion to be spent on desperately needed fixes to critical structures, up from just $650 million the previous cycle.
The transit agency’s next five-year capital budget got the green light, but board members and transit advocates are imploring Albany to figure out where the funding will come from.
The once and future president months ago said that he would kill the vehicle tolling program, but if Gov. Kathy Hochul acts quickly, there may be hope.