Congestion pricing is back on the city's map. And while the tolling program's principal purpose is to reduce traffic bottlenecks in Manhattan, the money that's raised will be dedicated to funding MTA capital work, much of which will be done in-house, by the members of Transport Workers Union Local 100.
About 100,000 jobs will be created by work tied to the plan, according to the open-government group Reinvent Albany. Nearly 88,000 of those jobs will go to MTA vendors. But significant portions of the work will be done by Brooklyn-based Local 100’s members who are responsible for the upkeep of subway trains and tracks and by those who service and repair the transit system’s mechanical equipment.
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