ALBANY – Few things are always certain at the state Capitol, but this is one of them: When the state makes plans to spend major money downstate, upstate lawmakers will soon push for their share.
That scenario is playing out once again after Gov. Andrew Cuomo committed earlier this month to putting $8.3 billion in state funds toward the New York City public-transit system’s capital plan as a way to help close a funding gap of more than $10 billion.
It hasn’t taken long for lawmakers from other parts of the state to call for parity. And it promises to be a major issue when the Legislature returns to the Capitol in January.
“If Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders are going to find billions of dollars for downstate mass transit in next year’s state budget, we want to make sure that local roads, bridges and culverts across the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions, and throughout the state, receive a fair share of state assistance,” Sen. Thomas O’Mara, R-Big Flats, Chemung County, and Assemblyman Phil Palmesano, R-Corning, Steuben County, said in a joint statement Monday. For the full article click here
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