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He noted that transit system the city has enacted congestion pricing and new revenue streams for the MTA, but said By Gregg McQueen questions still remain about the Capital Plan. “Will the state legislature step up to the here are capital concerns. plate, and give the MTA the funding that T it needs, and will the city join them in Transit advocates stood on the steps giving the MTA the $3 billion the state has of City Hall on Monday, calling on the requested? The other question is, can the Metropolitan Transportation Authority MTA get the work done?” asked Sifuentes. (MTA) to improve the transit system – “One of the most important things we’re while insisting on real transparency and calling for today is for the MTA to tell efficient planning. the riders how and when the Joined by City improvements we’ve been Council Transportation promised in the next five Committee Chair years will be seen.” Ydanis Rodríguez, the But the plan would group gathered prior “The future of the city rests on a successful mean success only if there capital plan,” said Nick Sifuentes. to a Council hearing are workers to move and regarding the MTA’s FY sustain the system, argued authority as workers have been without a negotiations. 2020-2024 Capital Plan. TWU Local 100 Union Vice contract for the past six months. “These days of bargaining have actually In September, the MTA President JP Patafio. A rally on October 30 drew tens of set us back,” Utano said at the rally. “Foye board unanimously approved the capital “Capital without a workforce is nothing. thousands of workers and supporters presented us with a new set of demands plan, which will invest a record $51.5 Transit workers, they make the capital outside MTA headquarters. Many present, today that are substantially worse than the billion into the region’s subways, buses, come to life,” he said. including TWU Local 100 Union President insulting package he threw across the table and railroads over the next five years. The union, which represents 41,000 Tony Utano, specifically cited MTA three months ago. Foye not only appears The plan includes $37.3 billion for transit workers, has been engaged in Chairman and Chief Executive Officer unwilling to negotiate in good faith, he is subways, including signal enhancements, contentious negotiations with the MTA Patrick J. Foye for mismanaging the 1,900 new subway cars, and making 70 See MOVEMENT p14 los próximos cinco años”. Pero el plan sería exitoso solo si hay trabajadores para mover y mantener el Dinero y movimiento sistema, argumentó el vicepresidente del sindicato TWU Local 100, JP Patafio. Defensores piden “El capital sin una fuerza laboral no es nada, los trabajadores del transporte hacen a la MTA que que la capital cobre vida”, dijo. El sindicato, que representa a 41,000 reforzar el sistema trabajadores del transporte, ha estado Por Gregg McQueen involucrado en polémicas negociaciones con la autoridad de la MTA ya que los trabajadores han estado sin contrato durante ay preocupaciones los últimos seis meses. Himportantes. Una manifestación el 30 de octubre atrajo a decenas de miles de trabajadores Defensores del transporte se manifestaron y simpatizantes afuera de la sede de la en las escalinatas del Ayuntamiento el lunes, MTA. Muchos de los presentes, incluido el pidiendo a la Autoridad Metropolitana de presidente del sindicato TWU Local 100, Tony Transporte (MTA, por sus siglas en inglés) Utano, citaron específicamente al presidente que mejore el sistema de transporte, al tiempo y director ejecutivo de la MTA, Patrick J. Foye, que insistieron en una transparencia real y por dirigir mal las negociaciones. una planificación eficiente. “Estos días de negociación nos han Junto con el presidente del Comité de retrasado”, dijo Utano en el mitin. Transporte del Concejo Municipal, Ydanis “Foye nos presentó hoy un nuevo Rodríguez, el grupo se reunió antes de una El plan incluye $37.3 mil millones de dólares para el metro. conjunto de demandas que son audiencia del Concejo sobre el Plan de a 70 estaciones. necesita, y la ciudad se les sustancialmente peores que el Capital FY 2020-2024 de la MTA. “El futuro de la ciudad se basa en un plan unirá para darle a la MTA los paquete insultante que arrojó En septiembre, la junta de la MTA aprobó de capital exitoso”, dijo Nick Sifuentes, director $3 mil millones de dólares sobre la mesa hace tres meses. por unanimidad el Plan de Capital, que ejecutivo de la Campaña de Transporte del que el estado ha solicitado? Foye no solo parece no estar invertirá un récord de $51.5 mil millones de área tri estatal. Señaló que la ciudad ha La otra pregunta es: ¿puede dispuesto a negociar de buena dólares en trenes subterráneos, autobuses y promulgado precios de congestión y nuevas la MTA hacer el trabajo?”, fe, sino que intencionalmente ferrocarriles de la región durante los próximos fuentes de ingresos para la MTA, pero, dijo, preguntó Sifuentes. “Una está arruinando todo para una cinco años. aún quedan preguntas sobre el Plan de de las cosas más importantes confrontación”. El plan incluye $37.3 mil millones de Capital. que pedimos hoy es que la MTA El lunes, Patafio dio un tono similar dólares para trenes subterráneos, incluyendo “¿La legislatura estatal dará un paso al les diga a los viajeros cómo y cuándo al implorar a la MTA que llegue a un nuevo mejoramiento de señalética, 1,900 vagones frente y le dará a la MTA los fondos que se verán las mejoras que nos prometieron para subterráneos nuevos y hacer ADA accesibles Vea MOVIMIENTO p14 NOVEMBER 27, 2019 • MANHATTAN TIMES • www.manhattantimesnews.com 3 Big plan, big prize ave a vision board large initiative supporting creative ideas aimed at enough to cover New York making New York City a better place. H Erika Boll, Executive Director of The City? David Prize, said that $200,000 is provided to the winners “without strings attached” If so, you might be in the running for a and is open to individuals submitting a said. We’re really trying to give confidence million dollars. wide range of ideas. and energy and a feeling of, ‘Wow, I’m Though New York City is known as “There’s no one sector we’re focusing making a difference and I’m making an a town brimming with big ideas, there’s on. It could be something related to the impact’ to people who are much earlier in always room for one more. environment, entrepreneurship, the arts, their trajectories.” Now, five local residents stand to win improving public spaces,” Boll said. “We Boll stressed that the prize is not $200,000 each for submitting their own want to help individuals that want to make intended for companies or nonprofit to The David Prize, a new $1 million New York City better off for all of us, organizations. economically, socially, and otherwise.” “The prize is intended for an individual The award is named for David applicant,” she said. Walentas, a Brooklyn real estate The David Prize has sponsored a series developer behind the transformation of public information sessions to assist of the Dumbo and Williamsburg would-be applicants. neighborhoods. The Walentas family The award is named for “What we’re hearing is, this type of will contribute $1 million annually for developer David Walentas. support for individuals is not common in the award. New York City, so it’s an important thing Among the criteria -- the individual The deadline to submit applications is to accomplish,” said Boll. applicant must be from the five December 1. “We’re really excited to double down boroughs, and propose an idea that Applicants will be narrowed to a shortlist on people that don’t have the financial can be implemented in New York of candidates, with a winner announced in capacity to make their idea a reality,” she City. Applicants should also be able to spring of 2020. An advisory panel will help added. “We want to hear a bold vision demonstrate that they have a need for the select the winners.