It is not quite the World Wrestling Federation, but this summer’s face-off over the tab for correcting problems in the subway system has brought together a tag team featuring Governor Cuomo, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph J. Lhota taking on Mayor de Blasio.
In an escalation of the hostilities, Local 100 July 26 took to the airwaves to blast the Mayor’s refusal to split evenly the $800-million cost of Chairman Lhota’s plan to move the subway system out of crisis mode. The union’s push came even as Mr. de Blasio hailed the Lhota rescue blueprint as “a good-faith plan.” Yet, the Mayor, citing the fiscal uncertainties looming in Washington under the Trump Administration, said the city was in no position to go beyond the $2.5-billion commitment in capital spending it had already made to the MTA.
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