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New York City's contribution and prioritization in MTA's 2025-2029 Capital Plan
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about New York City's $3 billion contribution to the MTA's 2025-2029 Capital Plan and how the MTA is prioritizing programs. MTA representatives explain the allocation and focus of the capital plan.
- The city's contribution is equal to the amount in the 2020-2024 program
- About 80% of the overall program is dedicated to New York City Transit
- Priorities include accessibility projects, signal modernization, and state of good repair work
- The plan focuses on replacing aging infrastructure and implementing new technologies to improve service
- MTA representatives state they are 'agnostic' on the source of contributions, focusing on securing necessary funding
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Thank you.
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Additionally, the proposed state executive budget includes a requirement for the city to contribute $3,000,000,000 towards the MTA's twenty twenty five, twenty twenty nine capital plan.
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With the city providing $400,000,000 of the total of that total in state fiscal 2026, can you give the committee a preview of how the MTA is prioritizing programs within the new capital plan?
John McCarthy
0:53:17
Yes.
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So the and I'll hand it over to Demetrius, real quickly the chair, the the that would be equal to the dollar amount that was in the twenty to twenty four program.
0:53:28
So it doesn't quite keep up with inflation.
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But that would go towards the New York City transit portion of the capital program, is around 80% of the overall program.
0:53:42
So that is filled with accessibility projects, modern signal you know, re signaling projects, and a ton of state good state of good repair.
0:53:52
Demetrius, is that that's the type of work that's that's prioritized in this program.
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Right?
Demetrius Crichlow
0:53:58
Yeah.
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I mean, a huge increase in like substation work.
0:54:02
Again, the car replacement, we have cars that are forty, fifty years old that we're replacing on on the at Staten Island, for example, as part of the current capital plan.
0:54:15
There was just a lot of work that the system itself has, you know, replacement of signals.
0:54:20
Everyone always talks about the signal system.
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You guys are upgrading your signal system, but the reality is the current signal system is 60 years old.
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So it's you don't upgrade with the same thing that you currently have.
0:54:32
You don't replace with the same thing.
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You wanna look for what's new.
0:54:35
My goal is to be able to provide better service than we're doing right now.
0:54:38
And the only way you could do that is to use new technology.
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So the new technology has a cost tied to it.
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And so our capital plan is really just strongly based on what is the need to provide for service today better than what it was yesterday.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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So do you think that it should be increased?
Demetrius Crichlow
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This has been a long process.
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A lot of coordination with with the state.
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And so the number that we landed at is the number that is determined to be the right number for this capital program.
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You know, if if we had more money, I'm sure there's absolutely more assets that could be replaced at the MTA, but this is the number that's determined to for right now for our capital plan.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:55:26
But do you think that the city's contribution should be increased?
Demetrius Crichlow
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I think we're agnostic on on the contribution itself.
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We just want the funding to be able to run the best transportation system possible.